5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

CLANS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /klænz/

Noun

plural of clan

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 CLANS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CLANS 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 83.6% of games, misses completely in 16.4%, and leaves about 132 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #102 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.56 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__N_ C in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _L__S L in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRODE ROUET TAMER LIBEL GOIER PARTE
Words starting with C Words ending with S

First-turn measures

5.11 Entropy (bits)
132 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CLANS 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.

3.56 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#102 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CLANS ranks #102 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
1,060
4 guesses
1,082
5 guesses
132
6 guesses
10

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ALNS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
32%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

110 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

387
199
180
150
122
95
69
68
67
59
58
56
56
44
42
40
29
27
27
26
25
23
23
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22
21
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17

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CLANS:

16% chance
Suggested:
TRODE
8% chance
Suggested:
ROUET
8% chance
Suggested:
TAMER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.4% →
TRODE 6.12 bits
8.4% →
ROUET 5.63 bits
7.6% →
TAMER 5.28 bits
6.4% →
LIBEL 5.08 bits
5.2% →
GOIER 5.16 bits
4.0% →
PARTE 4.70 bits
2.9% →
TRICE 5.17 bits
2.9% →
TRIDE 4.95 bits
2.8% →
TRIDE 4.78 bits
2.5% →
PARTE 4.78 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3L1A1N1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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