5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet F tier opener

WIDOW

WIDOW is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 81.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈwɪd.əʊ//ˈwɪd.oʊ/

Noun

A person whose spouse is absent:

Noun

An additional hand of playing cards dealt face-down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.

Verb

To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of.

Verb

To strip of anything valued.

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

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 WIDOW performs as a guess

WIDOW 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 62.8% of games, misses completely in 37.2%, and leaves about 436 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,483 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__O_ W in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _I__W I in the 2nd position and W in the 5th position

Try next

SLATE CRATE SLANE SALET SEARE TALER
Words starting with W Words ending with W

First-turn measures

3.38 Entropy (bits)
436 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
81.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 5% of evaluated openers
2.57 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WIDOW 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
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#13,483 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WIDOW ranks #13,483 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
23
3 guesses
671
4 guesses
1,267
5 guesses
375
6 guesses
16
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:
IO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
63%
Green tile
20%
All gray
37%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N K
G I Z M O
W I D O W

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WIDOW in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

48 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

877
353
285
135
113
89
64
51
48
33
32
29
29
22
17
15
14
13
13
12
9
9
9
9
9
9
8
8
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WIDOW:

37% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
15% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
12% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

37.2% →
SLATE 6.28 bits
15.0% →
CRATE 5.36 bits
12.1% →
SLANE 5.48 bits
5.7% →
SALET 4.69 bits
4.8% →
SEARE 5.25 bits
3.8% →
TALER 4.95 bits
2.7% →
RAILE 4.64 bits
2.2% →
TONIC 4.24 bits
2.0% →
TRONE 4.25 bits
1.4% →
MARLE 4.17 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4I1D2O1W4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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