5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

CLAUT

CLAUT 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

Noun

A kind of rake.

Noun

The material raked up; a rakeful.

Verb

To scratch or claw.

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 CLAUT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CLAUT 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 83.0% of games, misses completely in 17.0%, and leaves about 133 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #97 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.55 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___T C in the 1st position and T in the 5th position C__U_ C in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _L__T L in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

NOIRE RAMEN SHORE LIBEL SNORE SALLE
Words starting with C Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.17 Entropy (bits)
133 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 91% of evaluated openers
0.78 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CLAUT 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.

3.55 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#97 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CLAUT ranks #97 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
1,098
4 guesses
1,037
5 guesses
146
6 guesses
12
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
2 vowels
Common:
ALTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
36%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

115 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

402
208
143
138
118
100
93
79
69
63
52
50
44
36
32
31
31
28
27
25
23
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19

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CLAUT:

17% chance
Suggested:
NOIRE
9% chance
Suggested:
RAMEN
6% chance
Suggested:
SHORE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.0% →
NOIRE 6.03 bits
8.8% →
RAMEN 5.24 bits
6.1% →
SHORE 5.52 bits
5.9% →
LIBEL 5.05 bits
5.0% →
SNORE 4.91 bits
4.2% →
SALLE 4.64 bits
3.9% →
SPIRE 4.72 bits
3.4% →
SIREN 5.19 bits
2.9% →
TARTE 4.77 bits
2.7% →
PRICE 5.12 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3L1A1U1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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