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Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

WICCA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈwɪkə/[ˈwɪkə]

Proper noun

A neopagan religion that was first popularized by books written in 1949, 1954, and 1959 by the Englishman Gerald Gardner, involving the worship of a horned male god and a moon goddess, the observance of eight Sabbats, and the performance of various rituals.

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 WICCA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WICCA 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 72.4% of games, misses completely in 27.6%, and leaves about 348 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,481 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.87 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___A W in the 1st position and A in the 5th position W__C_ W in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _I__A I in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

SOREL TARSE TRINE RONTE NADIR LOURE
Words starting with W Words ending with A

First-turn measures

3.64 Entropy (bits)
348 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 10% of evaluated openers
2.31 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WICCA 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.

3.87 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#13,481 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WICCA ranks #13,481 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
661
4 guesses
1,263
5 guesses
370
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
22%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

59 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

650
528
242
145
94
85
84
56
55
46
40
39
33
29
18
18
17
16
14
12
12
12
11
11
8
8
7
6
6
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WICCA:

28% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
22% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.6% →
SOREL 6.05 bits
22.4% →
TARSE 5.55 bits
10.3% →
TRINE 5.46 bits
6.1% →
RONTE 4.71 bits
4.0% →
NADIR 4.57 bits
3.6% →
SOREL 4.73 bits
3.6% →
SOREL 5.26 bits
2.4% →
SOREL 4.67 bits
2.3% →
RONTE 4.40 bits
2.0% →
LOURE 4.36 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4I1C3C3A1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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