5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

VOICE

Yes, VOICE was the Wordle answer on July 8, 2022 (Wordle #384).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /vɔɪs//vɔjs//vɑjs/

Noun

Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character.

“The human voice is the oldest musical instrument in history.”

Noun

Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.

Verb

To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce

“He voiced the sentiments of the nation.”

Verb

To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.

Alternative forms: voyce

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: July 8, 2022 (#384).

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

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How VOICE performs as a guess

VOICE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 85.3% of games, misses completely in 14.7%, and leaves about 152 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,013 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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___E V in the 1st position and E in the 5th position V__C_ V in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SLART ALTER ARSON SLANT SALTY RIPEN
Words starting with V Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.81 Entropy (bits)
152 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 72% of evaluated openers
1.14 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How VOICE 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#6,013 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, VOICE ranks #6,013 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
866
4 guesses
1,179
5 guesses
230
6 guesses
13
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
3 vowels
Common:
EIO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
42%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
A B A C K
V O I C E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches VOICE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

97 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

347
324
169
154
145
133
107
69
66
52
46
43
43
39
36
34
32
31
30
29
26
25
23
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12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing VOICE:

15% chance
Suggested:
SLART
14% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
7% chance
Suggested:
ARSON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.7% →
SLART 5.91 bits
13.7% →
ALTER 5.39 bits
7.2% →
ARSON 5.13 bits
6.5% →
SLART 5.26 bits
6.1% →
SLANT 5.07 bits
5.6% →
SALTY 4.47 bits
4.5% →
SLART 5.16 bits
2.9% →
RIPEN 4.62 bits
2.8% →
SLART 4.96 bits
2.2% →
SLANT 4.12 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

V4O1I1C3E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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