5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

VIVES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A disease of animals, especially horses, based in the glands under the ear, where a tumour is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration.

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 VIVES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts VIVES 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 75.6% of games, misses completely in 24.4%, and leaves about 278 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,974 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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

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__E_ V in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position VI_ES V in the 1st position, I in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Try next

CORAL LEARE SLART CAIRN ALTER TRINE
Words starting with V Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.78 Entropy (bits)
278 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 14% of evaluated openers
2.17 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How VIVES 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#13,974 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, VIVES ranks #13,974 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
599
4 guesses
1,315
5 guesses
375
6 guesses
27
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
24%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

51 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

575
376
241
207
180
146
89
89
73
44
31
31
29
26
24
23
22
19
9
9
8
7
7
7
7
6
6
6
6
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VIVES:

24% chance
Suggested:
CORAL
16% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.4% →
CORAL 5.78 bits
15.9% →
LEARE 5.45 bits
10.2% →
SLART 5.27 bits
8.8% →
CAIRN 5.29 bits
7.6% →
ALTER 4.37 bits
6.2% →
SLART 4.94 bits
3.8% →
TRINE 4.57 bits
3.8% →
MINTY 3.74 bits
3.1% →
STINK 4.41 bits
1.9% →
STEER 3.79 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4I1V4E1S1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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