5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

WINDS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /wɪndz//waɪndz/

Noun

plural of wind

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of wind

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 WINDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WINDS 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 70.6% of games, misses completely in 29.4%, and leaves about 289 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,504 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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 W__D_ W in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CARLE STARE CRATE ROATE DROLE PALET
Words starting with W Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.15 Entropy (bits)
289 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 30% of evaluated openers
1.80 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WINDS 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
0.67 Volatility
#6,504 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WINDS ranks #6,504 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
853
4 guesses
1,241
5 guesses
201
6 guesses
12
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
1 vowels
Common:
INS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
20%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

78 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

694
321
155
143
119
86
84
68
64
58
52
33
33
31
31
28
27
25
24
23
23
14
14
12
12
11
9
8
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WINDS:

29% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
14% chance
Suggested:
STARE
7% chance
Suggested:
CRATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.4% →
CARLE 6.29 bits
13.6% →
STARE 5.74 bits
6.6% →
CRATE 5.54 bits
6.1% →
ROATE 5.41 bits
5.0% →
DROLE 5.30 bits
3.6% →
PALET 4.77 bits
3.6% →
LEANT 4.62 bits
2.9% →
CAGEY 4.68 bits
2.7% →
STIPE 4.55 bits
2.5% →
ATONE 4.60 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4I1N1D2S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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