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Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

VINOS

VINOS is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of vino

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How VINOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts VINOS as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 76.6% of games, misses completely in 23.4%, and leaves about 224 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,213 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

V___S V in the 1st position and S in the 5th position V__O_ V in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in VINOS.

First-turn measures

All four describe VINOS used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.38 Entropy (bits)
224 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 44% of evaluated openers
1.57 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How VINOS performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#7,213 Rank among openers
Opening with VINOS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,213 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
835
4 guesses
1,211
5 guesses
222
6 guesses
23
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
INOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
21%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

VINOS can come back 91 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

556 answers
261 answers
249 answers
186 answers
107 answers
94 answers
83 answers
79 answers
74 answers
68 answers
60 answers
54 answers
45 answers
29 answers
25 answers
24 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for VINOS; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

V4I1N1O1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.

Try next

CARLE STALE ALURE CRATE TRADE LATER

Strategy after playing VINOS

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to VINOS.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VINOS:

23% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
11% chance
Suggested:
STALE
10% chance
Suggested:
ALURE

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

23.4% →
CARLE 6.18 bits
11.0% →
STALE 5.69 bits
10.5% →
ALURE 5.00 bits
7.8% →
CRATE 5.62 bits
4.5% →
TRADE 5.15 bits
4.0% →
LATER 4.54 bits
3.5% →
PORTE 4.64 bits
3.3% →
TARGE 4.74 bits
3.1% →
STILE 4.41 bits
2.9% →
DRONE 4.47 bits

Research on VINOS

Game-tree analysis and word research for VINOS, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with VINOS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,129 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.88 guesses at best and is rank #3,612 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it VEENOHS. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, VINOS is a kind of alcohol.

Synonyms wine

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
VINOS sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).