5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

WHORE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /hɔː//hɔɚ//ho(ː)ɚ/

Noun

Synonym of prostitute: a person (especially a woman) who offers sexual services for payment.

Noun

A person who is sexually promiscuous; a slut.

Verb

To prostitute oneself.

Verb

To engage the services of a prostitute.

Alternative forms: wh*re, wh@re, whoore, ho

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.

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___E W in the 1st position and E in the 5th position W__R_ W in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _H__E H in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SLAIN SLANT SAULT AIDER TONAL SAINT
Words starting with W Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.87 Entropy (bits)
156 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 76% of evaluated openers
1.08 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WHORE 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#6,057 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WHORE ranks #6,057 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
896
4 guesses
1,118
5 guesses
250
6 guesses
22
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:
EOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
36%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

107 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

413
212
186
186
160
148
77
75
68
67
41
40
35
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34
29
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12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WHORE:

18% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
8% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.5% →
SLAIN 5.92 bits
9.0% →
SLANT 5.48 bits
7.9% →
SAULT 5.35 bits
7.9% →
AIDER 4.16 bits
6.8% →
TONAL 5.04 bits
6.3% →
SAINT 5.23 bits
3.3% →
SAICE 3.85 bits
3.2% →
SAULT 4.61 bits
2.9% →
SLANT 4.48 bits
2.8% →
CAROM 4.34 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4H4O1R1E1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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