5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

WASPS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of wasp

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of wasp

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 WASPS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WASPS 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 66.6% of games, misses completely in 33.4%, and leaves about 375 possible answers on average.

Across the six-turn solver test, it ranks #12,697 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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__P_ W in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE ALERT ROUET RONTE RIONE STALE
Words starting with W Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.61 Entropy (bits)
375 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 9% of evaluated openers
2.34 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener

How WASPS performs across the solver's possible answers. See the data page for the method.

3.83 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#12,697 Opener rank
WASPS ranks #12,697 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
667
4 guesses
1,323
5 guesses
311
6 guesses
16
Top-ranked in the six-turn solver test: SLANT (3.51 guesses on average in games solved within six). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
22%
All gray
33%

Feedback distribution

61 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

787
364
217
204
116
114
63
48
47
44
33
28
27
26
22
21
19
15
13
12
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9
8
8
8
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6
6
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WASPS:

33% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
15% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
9% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.4% →
TOILE 6.01 bits
15.4% →
ALERT 5.51 bits
9.2% →
ROUET 5.40 bits
8.7% →
RONTE 4.78 bits
4.9% →
RIONE 5.24 bits
4.8% →
STALE 4.72 bits
2.7% →
TOILE 4.51 bits
2.0% →
DRICE 4.63 bits
2.0% →
DRONE 4.55 bits
1.9% →
ALANE 4.53 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4A1S1P3S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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