5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

WORTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /wɜːts//wɔːts//wɝts/

Noun

plural of wort

Noun

A soup or stew made with worts (“vegetables”) and other ingredients such as meat.

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 WORTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WORTS 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 80.2% of games, misses completely in 19.8%, and leaves about 174 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,729 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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__T_ W in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

LIANE LAIDE SLANE NAICE ALINE GLACE
Words starting with W Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.75 Entropy (bits)
174 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 69% of evaluated openers
1.20 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WORTS 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#4,729 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WORTS ranks #4,729 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
930
4 guesses
1,139
5 guesses
212
6 guesses
19
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:
ORST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
26%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

102 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

468
260
194
157
104
96
87
86
81
61
53
51
36
36
33
31
29
26
25
24
23
21
20
18
16
15
15
12
12
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WORTS:

20% chance
Suggested:
LIANE
11% chance
Suggested:
LAIDE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.8% →
LIANE 6.21 bits
11.0% →
LAIDE 5.33 bits
8.2% →
SLANE 5.48 bits
6.7% →
NAICE 5.29 bits
4.4% →
ALINE 5.37 bits
4.1% →
GLACE 4.52 bits
3.7% →
ARIEL 4.67 bits
3.6% →
CADIE 4.13 bits
3.4% →
LEANT 4.92 bits
2.6% →
CADRE 4.44 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4O1R1T1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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