Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

WEIDS

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

No dictionary definition for WEIDS is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 92.0% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 WEIDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WEIDS 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 81.3% of games, misses completely in 18.7%, and leaves about 191 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,456 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe WEIDS used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.54 Entropy (bits)
191 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 54% of evaluated openers
1.41 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WEIDS 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#7,456 Rank among openers
Opening with WEIDS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,456 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
840
4 guesses
1,204
5 guesses
241
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
28%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

WEIDS can come back 89 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

445 answers
334 answers
212 answers
160 answers
147 answers
130 answers
85 answers
70 answers
70 answers
56 answers
45 answers
44 answers
41 answers
39 answers
29 answers
28 answers
26 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4E1I1D2S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing WEIDS

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to WEIDS.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WEIDS:

19% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
14% chance
Suggested:
LAREE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.7%
CAROL 5.98 bits
14.1%
LAREE 5.35 bits
8.9%
SLART 5.35 bits
6.7%
TONIC 5.09 bits
6.2%
SLART 5.02 bits
5.5%
LEARE 4.67 bits
3.6%
CLARY 4.58 bits
2.9%
BOARD 4.88 bits
2.9%
LINER 4.65 bits
2.4%
ARENE 4.55 bits

Research on WEIDS

Game-tree analysis and word research for WEIDS, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with WEIDS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,242 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with WEIDS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it WEEDZ. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.