5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

WEEST

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

superlative form of wee: most wee

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 WEEST performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WEEST 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 75.3% of games, misses completely in 24.7%, and leaves about 234 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,836 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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___T W in the 1st position and T in the 5th position W__S_ W in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _E__T E in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL RAILE SLAIN TITAN LAIRY CLARY
Words starting with W Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.46 Entropy (bits)
234 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 49% of evaluated openers
1.48 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WEEST 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#8,836 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WEEST ranks #8,836 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
771
4 guesses
1,260
5 guesses
233
6 guesses
24
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:
EST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
33%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

100 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

583
335
159
156
98
94
77
71
61
60
36
36
35
35
33
29
28
27
26
21
21
19
18
17
17
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15
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9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WEEST:

25% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
14% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.7% →
CAROL 5.92 bits
14.2% →
RAILE 5.31 bits
6.7% →
SLAIN 4.90 bits
6.6% →
TITAN 5.05 bits
4.2% →
LAIRY 4.38 bits
4.0% →
CLARY 4.94 bits
3.3% →
TARTE 4.65 bits
3.0% →
PAIRE 4.40 bits
2.6% →
SLASH 4.42 bits
2.5% →
ROANY 4.08 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4E1E1S1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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