5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

CLITS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /klɪts/

Noun

plural of clit

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of clit

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use CLITS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

Open Solver with CLITS Open Word Finder

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

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.
See strategy patterns

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__T_ C in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _L__S L in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position CL_TS C in the 1st position, L in the 2nd position, T in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

First-turn measures

All four describe CLITS used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

5.02 Entropy (bits)
147 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CLITS 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
99.87% Solved within six
0.66 Spread of game lengths
#86 Rank among openers
Opening with CLITS left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.66 means those games clustered within about 0.66 of a guess of the 3.55 average. It ranks #86 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
1,077
4 guesses
1,070
5 guesses
130
6 guesses
11

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ILST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
31%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

CLITS can come back 103 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

444 answers
181 answers
178 answers
145 answers
110 answers
96 answers
80 answers
75 answers
74 answers
67 answers
58 answers
57 answers
56 answers
46 answers
37 answers
36 answers
32 answers
32 answers
32 answers
27 answers
24 answers
22 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3L1I1T1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

ADORE SPARE LABEL TENOR DINER PEART

Strategy after playing CLITS

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to CLITS.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CLITS:

19% chance
Suggested:
ADORE
8% chance
Suggested:
SPARE
7% chance
Suggested:
LABEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.6% →
ADORE 5.91 bits
7.6% →
SPARE 5.56 bits
7.5% →
LABEL 5.23 bits
6.1% →
TENOR 5.46 bits
4.6% →
DINER 5.29 bits
4.0% →
PEART 4.91 bits
3.4% →
MORAE 5.20 bits
3.1% →
DRONE 5.07 bits
3.1% →
BRANE 4.87 bits
2.8% →
RANCE 5.08 bits