5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

CLEFT

Yes, CLEFT was the Wordle answer on February 2, 2024 (Wordle #958).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈklɛft/[ˈkʰl̥ɛft]

Noun

An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.

“The river flows through a cleft in the mountains.”

Noun

A piece made by splitting.

“a cleft of wood”

Verb

To syntactically separate a prominent constituent from the rest of the clause that concerns it, such as threat in "The threat which I saw but which he didn't see, was his downfall."

Verb

simple past and past participle of cleave

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: February 2, 2024 (#958).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How CLEFT performs as a guess

CLEFT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 83.5% of games, misses completely in 16.5%, and leaves about 167 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,626 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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.

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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__F_ C in the 1st position and F in the 4th position _L__T L in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

SONAR LOYAL LAREE TARTE SARED ARSON
Words starting with C Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.79 Entropy (bits)
167 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 71% of evaluated openers
1.16 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CLEFT 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#3,626 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CLEFT ranks #3,626 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
922
4 guesses
1,177
5 guesses
189
6 guesses
9
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:
ELT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
30%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L E E T
C L E F T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CLEFT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

101 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

390
359
154
149
122
115
94
76
69
54
51
48
35
34
34
32
30
30
28
21
20
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CLEFT:

17% chance
Suggested:
SONAR
15% chance
Suggested:
SONAR
7% chance
Suggested:
LOYAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.5% →
SONAR 5.80 bits
15.2% →
SONAR 5.51 bits
6.5% →
LOYAL 5.00 bits
6.3% →
SONAR 5.30 bits
5.2% →
LAREE 4.71 bits
4.9% →
TARTE 4.93 bits
4.0% →
SONAR 4.85 bits
3.2% →
SONAR 4.94 bits
2.9% →
SONAR 4.57 bits
2.3% →
SARED 4.47 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3L1E1F4T1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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