5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

CLAMS

CLAMS 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

Pronunciation: /klæmz/

Noun

plural of clam

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of clam

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 CLAMS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CLAMS 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 175 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #621 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 _L__S L in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRONE ROUET TONER LIBEL TALER TRINE
Words starting with C Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.80 Entropy (bits)
175 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 71% of evaluated openers
1.15 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CLAMS 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
0.67 Volatility
#621 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CLAMS ranks #621 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
1,013
4 guesses
1,119
5 guesses
148
6 guesses
10
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

107 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

482
239
208
154
103
87
82
72
67
61
59
52
42
38
32
30
28
27
24
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16
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13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CLAMS:

20% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
10% chance
Suggested:
ROUET
9% chance
Suggested:
TONER

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
8.8% →
TONER 5.44 bits
6.5% →
LIBEL 5.12 bits
4.4% →
TALER 4.63 bits
3.7% →
TRINE 5.13 bits
3.5% →
TRIDE 4.98 bits
3.1% →
ROUET 5.20 bits
2.8% →
SATER 4.67 bits
2.6% →
IRONE 5.13 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3L1A1M3S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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