5-Letter Word

FLAXY

A 5 letter word: flaxy

F1
L2
A3
X4
Y5
Letter positions
Word
flaxy
Position 1
f
Position 2
l
Position 3
a
Position 4
x
Position 5
y
Structure
Vowel count
1
Consonant count
4
Unique letters
5
Repeated letters
No
Vowel positions
3
Game use
Wordle friendly
No
Scrabble score
18

Pattern Frequency

FilterWords% of 12,478
Words with 1 vowel (same as this word)3,73629.9%
Vowels at position 31,37511.0%
Words with no repeated letters8,01364.2%

Letter-Position Frequency

LetterPositionWords% of dataset
F15754.6%
L26775.4%
A31,2069.7%
X4110.1%
Y51,25410.0%

Wordle Utility — Tier 3 — Weak opener

No repeated letters
Yes
Vowel count ≥ 2
No 1 vowel
No low-frequency tiles (Q, X, Z, J)
No contains: X

Tier 3 — Weak opener pool: 2,502 of 12,478 words (20.1%)

Scrabble Value

LetterPositionTile valueShare of score
F1422%
L216%
A316%
X4844%
Y5422%
Total18Higher than 99% of 5-letter words (dataset median: 9)

Frequently Asked Questions

Is FLAXY a good Wordle opening word?
FLAXY has no repeated letters but only 1 vowel, below the ≥2-vowel threshold for opener classification. It falls in the Tier 3 pool of 2,502 words (20.1% of dataset). Better deployed as a second or third guess once vowel positions are partly confirmed.
What does FLAXY mean?
FLAXY: A 5 letter word: flaxy.
What is the Scrabble score for FLAXY?
18 points. Tile breakdown: F(4) + L(1) + A(1) + X(8) + Y(4). The highest-value tile is X (8 points), contributing 44% of the total. This score is higher than 99% of the 12,478-word dataset (dataset median: 9 points).
What percentage of 5-letter words have 1 vowel?
3,736 of the 12,478 words in this dataset have exactly 1 vowel (29.9%). Full vowel-count distribution: 0 vowels: 51 (0.4%), 1 vowel: 3,736 (29.9%), 2 vowels: 7,415 (59.4%), 3 vowels: 1,249 (10.0%), 4 vowels: 27 (0.2%).

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