5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

CALMS

CALMS 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

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of calm

Noun

plural of calm

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 CALMS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CALMS 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 79.6% of games, misses completely in 20.4%, and leaves about 176 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #716 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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.

C___S C in the 1st position and S in the 5th position C__M_ C in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRONE ROUET TRADE GOIER TRINE RONTE
Words starting with C Words ending with S

First-turn measures

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

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CALMS 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#716 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CALMS ranks #716 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
1,022
4 guesses
1,114
5 guesses
150
6 guesses
11
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:
ALS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
28%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

97 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

482
239
180
164
112
110
92
87
72
61
48
42
34
34
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27
26
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22
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CALMS:

20% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
10% chance
Suggested:
ROUET
8% chance
Suggested:
TRADE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.4% →
TRONE 6.16 bits
10.1% →
ROUET 5.62 bits
7.6% →
TRADE 5.65 bits
7.0% →
GOIER 5.15 bits
4.7% →
TRINE 4.78 bits
4.7% →
RONTE 4.78 bits
3.9% →
STURE 4.82 bits
3.7% →
TRINE 5.13 bits
3.1% →
ROUET 5.20 bits
2.6% →
IRONE 5.13 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3A1L1M3S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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