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

CLOTH

Yes, CLOTH was the Wordle answer on March 6, 2022 (Wordle #260).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /klɒθ//klɔːθ//klɔθ/

Noun

A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes, woven fabric specifically.

Noun

Specifically, a tablecloth, especially as spread before a meal or removed afterwards.

Alternative forms: cloath, clath, clathe, claith

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: March 6, 2022 (#260).

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

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How CLOTH performs as a guess

CLOTH 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 78.6% of games, misses completely in 21.4%, and leaves about 179 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #870 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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___H C in the 1st position and H in the 5th position C__T_ C in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _L__H L in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

RAINE RAILE SANER MORNE BRINE ANISE
Words starting with C Words ending with H

First-turn measures

4.82 Entropy (bits)
179 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 73% of evaluated openers
1.13 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CLOTH 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#870 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CLOTH ranks #870 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
1,050
4 guesses
1,074
5 guesses
169
6 guesses
13
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:
LOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
32%
All gray
21%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B U N C H
C L O T H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CLOTH in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

100 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

505
212
202
166
89
86
78
72
61
61
61
58
50
39
31
28
25
23
23
19
19
19
18
18
18
17
15
15
15
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CLOTH:

21% chance
Suggested:
RAINE
9% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
SANER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.4% →
RAINE 6.18 bits
9.0% →
RAILE 5.46 bits
8.6% →
SANER 5.60 bits
7.0% →
MORNE 5.20 bits
3.8% →
BRINE 4.58 bits
3.6% →
ANISE 4.89 bits
3.3% →
MAIRE 5.18 bits
3.1% →
SIRED 5.18 bits
2.6% →
RAISE 4.68 bits
2.6% →
NOIRE 4.23 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3L1O1T1H4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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