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

WHOSE

Yes, WHOSE was the Wordle answer on May 2, 2025 (Wordle #1413).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /huːz/

Determiner

Of whom, belonging to whom; which person's or people's.

“Whose (wallet) is this?”

Determiner

Of whom, belonging to whom.

“This is the man whose dog caused the accident.”

Pronoun

That or those of whom or belonging to whom.

“Several people have lost their suitcases. Whose have you found?”

Contraction

Misspelling of who's.

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: May 2, 2025 (#1413).

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

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How WHOSE performs as a guess

WHOSE 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 82.9% of games, misses completely in 17.1%, and leaves about 177 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,410 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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.

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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__S_ W in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _H__E H in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL ALTER TALON RAILE SLANT CLARY
Words starting with W Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.73 Entropy (bits)
177 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 67% of evaluated openers
1.21 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WHOSE 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#8,410 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WHOSE ranks #8,410 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
73
3 guesses
803
4 guesses
1,186
5 guesses
267
6 guesses
23
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:
EOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
36%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
O B E S E
W H O S E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WHOSE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

109 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

404
345
195
191
150
81
71
66
65
56
42
39
37
33
32
29
29
28
25
19
19
19
14
14
14
13
13
12
12
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WHOSE:

17% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
15% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
8% chance
Suggested:
TALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.1% →
TRAIL 5.88 bits
14.6% →
ALTER 5.41 bits
8.3% →
TALON 5.05 bits
8.1% →
RAILE 4.45 bits
6.4% →
SLANT 5.22 bits
3.4% →
CLARY 4.23 bits
3.0% →
MIRTH 4.48 bits
2.8% →
STEER 4.66 bits
2.8% →
TONER 4.23 bits
2.4% →
SAINT 3.83 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4H4O1S1E1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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