5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

WANTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /wɑnts//wɔnts//wʌnts/

Noun

plural of want

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of want

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 WANTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WANTS 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 79.8% of games, misses completely in 20.2%, and leaves about 172 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,675 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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__T_ W in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position WA_TS W in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, T in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Try next

DROLE ROULE ROUET GOIER MARLE CHARE
Words starting with W Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.71 Entropy (bits)
172 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 66% of evaluated openers
1.24 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WANTS 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.66 Volatility
#3,675 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WANTS ranks #3,675 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
914
4 guesses
1,213
5 guesses
166
6 guesses
10
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
1 vowels
Common:
ANST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
26%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

476
227
166
159
127
119
81
78
75
68
62
50
43
41
41
41
34
29
28
22
21
20
18
18
17
16
15
14
14
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WANTS:

20% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
10% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
7% chance
Suggested:
ROULE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.2% →
DROLE 5.98 bits
9.6% →
DROLE 5.44 bits
7.0% →
ROULE 5.28 bits
6.7% →
ROUET 5.52 bits
5.4% →
GOIER 5.24 bits
5.0% →
MARLE 4.50 bits
3.4% →
ROUET 4.57 bits
3.3% →
CHARE 4.73 bits
3.2% →
ALERT 4.81 bits
2.9% →
GRICE 4.77 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4A1N1T1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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