5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

WINGS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /wɪŋz/

Noun

plural of wing

Noun

A type of scuba harness with an attached buoyancy compensation device: see wikipedia:Backplate and wing

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of wing

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 WINGS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WINGS 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 69.4% of games, misses completely in 30.6%, and leaves about 309 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,570 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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__G_ W in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE STALE CRATE LATER GLARE STILE
Words starting with W Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.06 Entropy (bits)
309 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 25% of evaluated openers
1.89 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WINGS 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#7,570 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WINGS ranks #7,570 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
832
4 guesses
1,241
5 guesses
220
6 guesses
14
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)
69%
Green tile
20%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

80 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

721
325
196
147
92
87
70
67
64
57
43
38
35
29
25
24
24
21
21
21
19
17
17
12
11
10
9
9
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WINGS:

31% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
14% chance
Suggested:
STALE
8% chance
Suggested:
CRATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.6% →
ROATE 6.14 bits
13.8% →
STALE 5.71 bits
8.3% →
CRATE 5.55 bits
6.2% →
ROATE 5.34 bits
3.9% →
LATER 4.70 bits
3.7% →
GLARE 5.25 bits
3.0% →
STILE 4.54 bits
2.8% →
ORATE 4.65 bits
2.7% →
HAOLE 4.65 bits
2.4% →
ATONE 4.71 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4I1N1G2S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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