5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

WOULD

Yes, WOULD was the Wordle answer on December 14, 2023 (Wordle #908).

As an opener, it rules out about 88.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /wəd//əd//(w)ʊ(l)d/

Verb

Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.

“On my first day at University, I met the woman who would become my wife.”

Verb

A modal verb, the subjunctive of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive.

“If I won the lottery, I would give half the money to charity.”

Noun

Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.

Interjection

Ellipsis of I would, used to denote that the speaker finds another person sexually attractive.

Alternative forms: wou'd

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: December 14, 2023 (#908).

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

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How WOULD performs as a guess

WOULD is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 71.9% of games, misses completely in 28.1%, and leaves about 263 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,485 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___D W in the 1st position and D in the 5th position W__L_ W in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE RAISE TRONE SIREN CARET RAINE
Words starting with W Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.29 Entropy (bits)
263 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 38% of evaluated openers
1.65 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WOULD 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
0.69 Volatility
#5,485 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WOULD ranks #5,485 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
880
4 guesses
1,191
5 guesses
216
6 guesses
10
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)
72%
Green tile
30%
All gray
28%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S C O L D
W O U L D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WOULD in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

91 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

662
245
204
154
129
100
77
69
56
48
42
41
37
37
32
32
32
27
25
19
18
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10
10
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WOULD:

28% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
10% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.1% →
TARSE 6.41 bits
10.4% →
RAISE 5.30 bits
8.7% →
TRONE 5.41 bits
6.5% →
SIREN 5.07 bits
5.5% →
CARET 4.75 bits
4.2% →
RAINE 5.47 bits
3.3% →
PAISE 4.80 bits
2.9% →
TARSE 4.84 bits
2.4% →
STOAE 4.31 bits
2.0% →
IRATE 4.54 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4O1U1L1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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