5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

WHETS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of whet

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 WHETS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WHETS 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 79.2% of games, misses completely in 20.8%, and leaves about 227 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,387 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.

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__T_ W in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _H__S H in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL RAILE TRAIL LAIRY SPARE EATER
Words starting with W Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.46 Entropy (bits)
227 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 49% of evaluated openers
1.49 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WHETS 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
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#7,387 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WHETS ranks #7,387 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
816
4 guesses
1,229
5 guesses
230
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
1 vowels
Common:
EST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
22%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

97 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

491
443
157
148
110
106
85
68
61
34
33
32
30
28
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26
24
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14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WHETS:

21% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
19% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
7% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.8% →
CAROL 5.85 bits
18.8% →
RAILE 5.45 bits
6.7% →
TRAIL 5.28 bits
6.3% →
LAIRY 5.02 bits
4.7% →
SPARE 4.67 bits
4.5% →
EATER 4.65 bits
3.6% →
ROAST 4.43 bits
2.9% →
MORPH 4.71 bits
2.6% →
CREED 4.35 bits
1.4% →
DROLE 4.30 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4H4E1T1S1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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