5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

WUXIA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /wuːˈʃɑː//ˌwuˈʃɑ/

Noun

A genre of East Asian fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists, typically set in Ancient China.

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 WUXIA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WUXIA 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 79.3% of games, misses completely in 20.7%, and leaves about 335 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,429 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.95 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___A W in the 1st position and A in the 5th position W__I_ W in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _U__A U in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE SOREL TRINE TORSE MORSE RONTE
Words starting with W Words ending with A

First-turn measures

3.54 Entropy (bits)
335 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 8% of evaluated openers
2.41 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WUXIA 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.

3.95 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.75 Volatility
#14,429 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WUXIA ranks #14,429 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
24
3 guesses
612
4 guesses
1,230
5 guesses
442
6 guesses
45
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
3 vowels
Common:
AIU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
21%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

48 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

604
489
333
187
131
69
60
60
56
47
41
34
29
28
20
19
19
18
13
12
12
10
7
6
6
5
5
5
4
3

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WUXIA:

26% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
21% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
14% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.6% →
TARSE 5.52 bits
20.7% →
SOREL 5.82 bits
14.1% →
TRINE 5.29 bits
7.9% →
TORSE 5.30 bits
5.6% →
MORSE 4.32 bits
2.9% →
RONTE 4.73 bits
2.5% →
RAINE 4.53 bits
2.5% →
SOREL 4.62 bits
2.4% →
SLART 4.17 bits
2.0% →
SAULT 4.44 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4U1X8I1A1
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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