5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

CLITS

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

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

Open Solver with CLITS Open Word Finder

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.

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.

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__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

Try next

ADORE SNARE LABEL TENOR DINER PEART
Words starting with C Words ending with S

First-turn measures

5.02 Entropy (bits)
145 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 84% of evaluated openers
0.93 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 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
99.9% Win rate
0.66 Volatility
#86 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CLITS 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
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:
ILST

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

103 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

438
178
177
144
109
94
79
74
73
66
57
57
55
46
37
36
32
32
31
27
24
22
20
18
18
17
17
17
17
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CLITS:

19% chance
Suggested:
ADORE
8% chance
Suggested:
SNARE
8% chance
Suggested:
LABEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.6% →
ADORE 5.90 bits
7.5% →
SNARE 5.43 bits
7.5% →
LABEL 5.24 bits
6.1% →
TENOR 5.46 bits
4.6% →
DINER 5.28 bits
4.0% →
PEART 4.87 bits
3.4% →
MORAE 5.19 bits
3.1% →
DRONE 5.07 bits
3.1% →
BRANE 4.89 bits
2.8% →
RANCE 5.04 bits

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.