5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

WANES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of wane

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of wane

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 WANES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WANES 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 86.1% of games, misses completely in 13.9%, and leaves about 127 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,996 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.

W___S W in the 1st position and S in the 5th position W__E_ W in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position WA_ES W in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Try next

MOULT URITE TRAIL SPOUT DEALT OLDER
Words starting with W Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.99 Entropy (bits)
127 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 83% of evaluated openers
0.96 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WANES 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
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#5,996 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WANES ranks #5,996 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
846
4 guesses
1,217
5 guesses
206
6 guesses
17
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:
AENS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
32%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

96 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

328
222
165
147
147
135
106
89
87
71
56
52
51
41
37
33
32
30
29
27
27
24
22
21
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19
17
17
15
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WANES:

14% chance
Suggested:
MOULT
9% chance
Suggested:
URITE
7% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.9% →
MOULT 5.60 bits
9.4% →
URITE 5.04 bits
7.0% →
TRAIL 5.24 bits
6.2% →
SPOUT 5.00 bits
6.2% →
DEALT 4.91 bits
5.7% →
OLDER 4.14 bits
4.5% →
TARDY 4.11 bits
3.8% →
IRONY 4.81 bits
3.7% →
PORTE 4.73 bits
3.0% →
SLART 4.58 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4A1N1E1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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