Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

WINNA

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

No dictionary definition for WINNA is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use WINNA in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 85.8% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How WINNA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WINNA 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 72.8% of games, misses completely in 27.2%, and leaves about 337 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,347 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.86 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe WINNA used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

3.81 Entropy (bits)
337 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WINNA 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.

3.86 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#13,347 Rank among openers
Opening with WINNA left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.86 average. It ranks #13,347 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
681
4 guesses
1,232
5 guesses
374
6 guesses
27

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
25%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

WINNA can come back 66 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

648 answers
536 answers
215 answers
127 answers
76 answers
74 answers
61 answers
59 answers
44 answers
44 answers
42 answers
42 answers
42 answers
39 answers
33 answers
29 answers
27 answers
25 answers
25 answers
18 answers
17 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4I1N1N1A1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing WINNA

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to WINNA.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WINNA:

27% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
22% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
9% chance
Suggested:
CRISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.2% →
SOREL 6.03 bits
22.5% →
TARSE 5.61 bits
9.0% →
CRISE 5.28 bits
5.3% →
SLYER 4.34 bits
3.2% →
RATEL 4.44 bits
3.1% →
SOREL 5.03 bits
2.6% →
SOREL 4.54 bits
2.5% →
TORSE 4.64 bits
1.8% →
PLORE 4.47 bits
1.8% →
STOLE 3.67 bits

Research on WINNA

Game-tree analysis and word research for WINNA, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with WINNA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.87 guesses and ranks #13,136 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.01 guesses at best and is rank #6,310 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.86, at or below the proven-optimal 3.87, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
WINNA sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).