5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

WARTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of wart

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 WARTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WARTS 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 83.4% of games, misses completely in 16.6%, and leaves about 141 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,850 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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

MOILE PRIED CLINE SPILE TOILE BRACE
Words starting with W Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.93 Entropy (bits)
141 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.0% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WARTS 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#1,850 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WARTS ranks #1,850 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
953
4 guesses
1,179
5 guesses
150
6 guesses
11

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ARST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
27%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

103 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

391
220
178
154
124
115
99
73
73
68
55
54
45
44
44
41
36
33
33
30
24
23
22
20
19
19
19
16
15
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WARTS:

17% chance
Suggested:
MOILE
9% chance
Suggested:
PRIED
8% chance
Suggested:
CLINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.6% →
MOILE 5.90 bits
9.3% →
PRIED 5.16 bits
7.5% →
CLINE 5.53 bits
6.5% →
SPILE 5.32 bits
5.3% →
TOILE 5.18 bits
4.9% →
BRACE 4.65 bits
4.2% →
CLINE 4.57 bits
3.1% →
SIENT 4.45 bits
3.1% →
ROUET 4.60 bits
2.9% →
SHULE 4.78 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4A1R1T1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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