5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

WHAMS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of wham

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of wham

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 WHAMS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WHAMS 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 72.4% of games, misses completely in 27.6%, and leaves about 285 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,749 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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__M_ W in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _H__S H in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

RIONE TALER RUOTE DRICE CONTE TOILE
Words starting with W Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.10 Entropy (bits)
285 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 28% of evaluated openers
1.85 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WHAMS 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#9,749 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WHAMS ranks #9,749 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
781
4 guesses
1,220
5 guesses
290
6 guesses
11
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
24%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

83 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

651
360
242
123
102
86
86
66
61
45
37
35
35
30
29
26
25
23
22
18
17
17
13
12
11
11
11
10
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WHAMS:

28% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
15% chance
Suggested:
TALER
10% chance
Suggested:
RUOTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.6% →
RIONE 5.98 bits
15.3% →
TALER 5.54 bits
10.3% →
RUOTE 5.43 bits
5.2% →
DRICE 4.80 bits
4.3% →
CONTE 5.18 bits
3.6% →
TOILE 5.09 bits
3.6% →
SALET 4.73 bits
2.8% →
STILE 4.32 bits
2.6% →
RAINE 4.42 bits
1.9% →
DOWEL 4.43 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4H4A1M3S1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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