5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

VLEIS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of vlei

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 VLEIS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts VLEIS 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 83.3% of games, misses completely in 16.7%, and leaves about 164 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,837 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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__I_ V in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _L__S L in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

COURT ROATE SHART PRINT ROAST LOYAL
Words starting with V Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.69 Entropy (bits)
164 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 64% of evaluated openers
1.26 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How VLEIS 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#7,837 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, VLEIS ranks #7,837 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
818
4 guesses
1,222
5 guesses
238
6 guesses
16
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EILS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
24%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

89 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

394
313
182
142
115
115
111
101
70
68
66
59
42
41
38
37
35
34
21
21
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17
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10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VLEIS:

17% chance
Suggested:
COURT
13% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
8% chance
Suggested:
SHART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.7% →
COURT 5.82 bits
13.3% →
ROATE 5.46 bits
7.7% →
SHART 5.24 bits
6.0% →
PRINT 5.00 bits
4.9% →
ROAST 4.87 bits
4.9% →
LOYAL 4.90 bits
4.7% →
LEARE 4.58 bits
4.3% →
TRINE 4.70 bits
3.0% →
CATER 4.63 bits
2.9% →
TRADE 4.55 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4L1E1I1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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