5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

CLADS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of clad

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 CLADS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CLADS 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 81.9% of games, misses completely in 18.1%, and leaves about 157 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #589 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__D_ C in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _L__S L in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TONER ROUET LIBEL DINER PARTE TRINE
Words starting with C Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.87 Entropy (bits)
157 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CLADS 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
99.9% Win rate
0.66 Volatility
#589 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CLADS ranks #589 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
1,015
4 guesses
1,127
5 guesses
140
6 guesses
11

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ALS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
29%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

98 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

428
244
205
142
119
100
85
68
63
62
61
45
42
41
34
32
30
30
29
29
23
23
22
22
22
19
18
16
16
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CLADS:

18% chance
Suggested:
TONER
10% chance
Suggested:
ROUET
9% chance
Suggested:
TONER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.1% →
TONER 6.19 bits
10.3% →
ROUET 5.60 bits
8.7% →
TONER 5.40 bits
6.0% →
LIBEL 5.19 bits
5.0% →
DINER 5.54 bits
4.2% →
PARTE 4.67 bits
3.6% →
TRINE 5.14 bits
2.9% →
PATER 4.87 bits
2.7% →
IRONE 5.10 bits
2.6% →
TRINE 4.89 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3L1A1D2S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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