5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

WOFUL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Obsolete spelling of woeful.

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 WOFUL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WOFUL 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 68.9% of games, misses completely in 31.1%, and leaves about 315 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,100 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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___L W in the 1st position and L in the 5th position W__U_ W in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _O__L O in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE SAICE TRINE CASTE CARET SAVER
Words starting with W Words ending with L

First-turn measures

3.97 Entropy (bits)
315 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 21% of evaluated openers
1.98 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WOFUL 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#11,100 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WOFUL ranks #11,100 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
747
4 guesses
1,250
5 guesses
302
6 guesses
13
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:
LOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
25%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

73 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

733
248
231
203
135
80
69
62
49
45
44
42
35
34
31
24
20
15
15
15
14
14
14
13
13
12
11
11
11
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WOFUL:

31% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
11% chance
Suggested:
SAICE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.1% →
TARSE 6.34 bits
10.5% →
SAICE 5.39 bits
9.8% →
TRINE 5.41 bits
8.6% →
CASTE 5.09 bits
5.7% →
CARET 4.69 bits
3.4% →
SAVER 4.64 bits
2.9% →
SUCRE 4.10 bits
2.6% →
FRITE 5.14 bits
2.1% →
BLASE 4.15 bits
1.9% →
TRICE 4.95 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4O1F4U1L1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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