5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

WHEAT

Yes, WHEAT was the Wordle answer on April 9, 2025 (Wordle #1390).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈwiːt/[ˈwɪi̯t]/ˈʍiːt/

Noun

Any of the several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.

“They bought a sack of wheat and a sack of rye with the intent to try their hand at milling and baking.”

Noun

A light brown color, like that of wheat.

“They debated the paint color options for the bathroom walls and settled on wheat.”

Adjective

Wheaten, of a light brown color, like that of wheat.

Alternative forms: wheate

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: April 9, 2025 (#1390).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How WHEAT performs as a guess

WHEAT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 85.0% of games, misses completely in 15.0%, and leaves about 166 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,796 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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__A_ W in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _H__T H in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

RIONE SOILY SALON GLARE POIRE NOIRE
Words starting with W Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.81 Entropy (bits)
166 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 72% of evaluated openers
1.14 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WHEAT 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#7,796 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WHEAT ranks #7,796 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
75
3 guesses
810
4 guesses
1,185
5 guesses
267
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AET

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
29%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S P L A T
C H E A T
W H E A T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WHEAT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

111 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

355
353
249
173
81
77
75
63
63
62
60
48
47
37
33
31
28
26
25
24
22
22
20
19
18
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15
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WHEAT:

15% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
15% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
11% chance
Suggested:
SALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.1% →
RIONE 5.29 bits
15.0% →
SOILY 5.74 bits
10.6% →
SALON 5.03 bits
7.3% →
GLARE 4.70 bits
3.4% →
SOILY 4.72 bits
3.3% →
POIRE 4.53 bits
3.2% →
NOIRE 4.64 bits
2.7% →
SATIN 4.40 bits
2.7% →
CORAL 4.45 bits
2.6% →
SNEER 4.35 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4H4E1A1T1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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