5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

WINOS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of wino

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 WINOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WINOS 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 76.8% of games, misses completely in 23.2%, and leaves about 215 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,476 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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__O_ W in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CARLE SLATE CRATE TALER LATER STORE
Words starting with W Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.47 Entropy (bits)
215 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 50% of evaluated openers
1.48 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WINOS 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#5,476 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WINOS ranks #5,476 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
887
4 guesses
1,187
5 guesses
206
6 guesses
17
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
2 vowels
Common:
INOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
22%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

92 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

546
248
243
181
106
102
79
78
63
57
55
52
44
29
25
23
22
22
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10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WINOS:

23% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
11% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
10% chance
Suggested:
CRATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.2% →
CARLE 6.22 bits
10.5% →
SLATE 5.67 bits
10.3% →
CRATE 5.32 bits
7.7% →
CRATE 5.61 bits
4.5% →
TALER 5.11 bits
4.3% →
LATER 4.74 bits
3.4% →
STORE 4.61 bits
3.3% →
TARGE 4.71 bits
2.7% →
STIPE 4.40 bits
2.4% →
TALER 4.57 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4I1N1O1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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