5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

WARES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /wɛəz//wɛɹz//weːz/

Noun

plural of ware

Noun

Goods or services that are for sale.

“The square was filled with booths, with vendors offering their wares.”

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 WARES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WARES 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 86.9% of games, misses completely in 13.1%, and leaves about 110 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,321 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__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

COUNT TOILE SPILT PLAIT DROIT DEALT
Words starting with W Words ending with S

First-turn measures

5.18 Entropy (bits)
110 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 91% of evaluated openers
0.77 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WARES 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
0.70 Volatility
#5,321 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WARES ranks #5,321 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
72
3 guesses
860
4 guesses
1,195
5 guesses
215
6 guesses
12
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:
AERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
34%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

109 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

308
186
138
133
114
109
104
103
85
83
81
65
65
62
45
36
34
31
30
30
29
23
22
22
21
18
18
16
15
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WARES:

13% chance
Suggested:
COUNT
8% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
6% chance
Suggested:
SPILT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.1% →
COUNT 5.67 bits
7.9% →
TOILE 5.24 bits
5.9% →
SPILT 4.98 bits
5.6% →
PLAIT 4.99 bits
4.8% →
DROIT 4.92 bits
4.6% →
DEALT 4.82 bits
4.4% →
TANGY 3.95 bits
4.4% →
TOILE 3.43 bits
3.6% →
TOILE 4.45 bits
3.5% →
TRICE 4.33 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4A1R1E1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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