5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

WROTH

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɹəʊθ//ɹɒθ//ɹɔθ/

Adjective

Full of anger; wrathful.

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 WROTH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WROTH 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 76.2% of games, misses completely in 23.8%, and leaves about 210 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,285 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

W___H W in the 1st position and H in the 5th position W__T_ W in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _R__H R in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in WROTH.

First-turn measures

All four describe WROTH used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.64 Entropy (bits)
210 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 61% of evaluated openers
1.31 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WROTH 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#4,285 Rank among openers
Opening with WROTH solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,285 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
913
4 guesses
1,175
5 guesses
192
6 guesses
16
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ORT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
30%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

WROTH can come back 104 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

565 answers
247 answers
188 answers
160 answers
117 answers
83 answers
80 answers
75 answers
67 answers
64 answers
58 answers
46 answers
41 answers
37 answers
37 answers
29 answers
27 answers
21 answers
21 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4R1O1T1H4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

ALINE LAREE SLANE LIANE CADIE CARER

Strategy after playing WROTH

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to WROTH.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WROTH:

24% chance
Suggested:
ALINE
10% chance
Suggested:
LAREE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.8% →
ALINE 6.21 bits
10.4% →
LAREE 5.11 bits
7.9% →
SLANE 5.72 bits
6.7% →
LIANE 5.05 bits
4.9% →
CADIE 4.88 bits
3.5% →
CARER 4.49 bits
3.4% →
SAICE 5.25 bits
3.2% →
SLAKE 4.64 bits
2.8% →
SATEM 4.62 bits
2.7% →
PAISE 4.75 bits

Research on WROTH

Game-tree analysis and word research for WROTH, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with WROTH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,047 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.82 guesses at best and is rank #2,020 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it RAWTH. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

Synonyms ANGRY

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
WROTH sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).