5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

WARDS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of ward

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of ward

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 WARDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WARDS 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 81.5% of games, misses completely in 18.5%, and leaves about 175 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,953 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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__D_ W in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE CLONE CONTE TRACE TUILE STALE
Words starting with W Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.60 Entropy (bits)
175 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 59% of evaluated openers
1.35 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WARDS 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#4,953 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WARDS ranks #4,953 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
896
4 guesses
1,190
5 guesses
207
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)
82%
Green tile
26%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

437
236
223
202
133
118
101
99
66
62
56
46
44
38
32
30
28
25
25
21
18
17
17
17
17
15
14
10
10
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WARDS:

19% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
10% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
9% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.5% →
TOILE 6.07 bits
10.0% →
TOILE 5.14 bits
9.5% →
TOILE 5.46 bits
8.6% →
CLONE 5.56 bits
5.6% →
CONTE 4.78 bits
5.0% →
TRACE 4.86 bits
4.3% →
TUILE 5.15 bits
4.2% →
STALE 4.90 bits
2.8% →
CONTE 4.65 bits
2.6% →
SPITE 4.72 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4A1R1D2S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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