5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

WIVED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of wive

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 WIVED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WIVED 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 72.3% of games, misses completely in 27.7%, and leaves about 301 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,923 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___D W in the 1st position and D in the 5th position W__E_ W in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__D I in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position WI_ED W in the 1st position, I in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and D in the 5th position

Try next

ROAST SLART SLANT SOLAR STIRE SALTY
Words starting with W Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.05 Entropy (bits)
301 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.2% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WIVED 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#10,923 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WIVED ranks #10,923 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
752
4 guesses
1,228
5 guesses
309
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
27%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

81 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

653
415
225
159
88
82
70
66
45
43
39
26
23
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WIVED:

28% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
18% chance
Suggested:
SLART
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.7% →
ROAST 5.99 bits
17.6% →
SLART 5.86 bits
9.5% →
SLANT 5.54 bits
6.7% →
SOLAR 4.65 bits
3.7% →
STIRE 4.41 bits
3.5% →
SALTY 4.24 bits
3.0% →
DEARE 4.68 bits
2.8% →
DANDY 4.47 bits
1.9% →
SOARE 4.41 bits
1.8% →
SWORN 4.42 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4I1V4E1D2
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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