5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

WARBS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of warb

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 WARBS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WARBS 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 80.0% of games, misses completely in 20.0%, and leaves about 197 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,491 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__B_ W in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE TRIED CLONE CLINE TRACE THALE
Words starting with W Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.44 Entropy (bits)
197 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 48% of evaluated openers
1.51 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WARBS 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
0.67 Volatility
#6,491 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WARBS ranks #6,491 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
840
4 guesses
1,244
5 guesses
209
6 guesses
8
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:
ARS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
24%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

82 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

471
263
235
219
129
125
103
79
61
59
49
42
35
33
32
28
26
25
25
22
21
20
18
15
14
12
10
10
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WARBS:

20% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
11% chance
Suggested:
TRIED
10% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.0% →
TOILE 6.09 bits
11.2% →
TRIED 5.32 bits
10.0% →
TOILE 5.49 bits
9.3% →
CLONE 5.48 bits
5.5% →
CLINE 4.63 bits
5.3% →
TRACE 4.91 bits
4.4% →
THALE 4.75 bits
3.4% →
TUILE 5.16 bits
2.6% →
CONTE 4.46 bits
2.5% →
SPITE 4.71 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4A1R1B3S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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