5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

WEEDS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /wiːdz/

Noun

plural of weed

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of weed

Noun

Clothes.

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 WEEDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WEEDS 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 70.9% of games, misses completely in 29.1%, and leaves about 314 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,957 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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 _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TALON RAILE SAULT TRIAD STAIR CLARY
Words starting with W Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.95 Entropy (bits)
314 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.00 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WEEDS 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#11,957 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WEEDS ranks #11,957 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
688
4 guesses
1,285
5 guesses
313
6 guesses
15
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
24%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

79 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

685
355
289
130
130
103
60
41
37
32
30
30
30
29
29
24
22
21
18
18
18
17
16
16
16
15
8
7
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WEEDS:

29% chance
Suggested:
TALON
15% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
12% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.1% →
TALON 5.82 bits
15.1% →
RAILE 5.30 bits
12.3% →
SAULT 5.24 bits
5.5% →
TRIAD 5.13 bits
5.5% →
STAIR 4.66 bits
4.4% →
CLARY 4.89 bits
2.5% →
RAINE 4.54 bits
1.7% →
CLEAT 4.34 bits
1.6% →
NEVER 3.84 bits
1.4% →
STAIR 3.63 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4E1E1D2S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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