5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

WHEWS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of whew

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 WHEWS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WHEWS 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 71.2% of games, misses completely in 28.8%, and leaves about 388 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,334 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.93 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 _H__S H in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TALON RAILE SAINT STAIR TORCH TRADE
Words starting with W Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.47 Entropy (bits)
388 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 6% of evaluated openers
2.48 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WHEWS 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.

3.93 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#14,334 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WHEWS ranks #14,334 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
586
4 guesses
1,274
5 guesses
431
6 guesses
31
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
1 vowels
Common:
ES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
18%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

54 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

680
577
247
154
118
86
55
40
39
34
29
29
25
22
21
19
19
18
14
12
11
10
7
7
7
7
6
5
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WHEWS:

29% chance
Suggested:
TALON
24% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
10% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.8% →
TALON 5.81 bits
24.5% →
RAILE 5.39 bits
10.5% →
SAINT 5.33 bits
6.5% →
STAIR 4.85 bits
5.0% →
TORCH 4.91 bits
3.6% →
TRADE 4.29 bits
2.3% →
CARTE 4.75 bits
1.7% →
PALET 4.14 bits
1.7% →
TRICE 3.98 bits
1.4% →
SAULT 4.15 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4H4E1W4S1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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