5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

CLUBS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /klʌbz//klʊbz/

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of club

Noun

plural of club

Noun

Alternative form of clumps (“game of asking questions”).

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 CLUBS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CLUBS 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 73.2% of games, misses completely in 26.8%, and leaves about 260 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,667 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___S C in the 1st position and S in the 5th position C__B_ C in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _L__S L in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE TIARE RAILE RONTE ORATE IRATE
Words starting with C Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.29 Entropy (bits)
260 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 38% of evaluated openers
1.66 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How CLUBS 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#4,667 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, CLUBS ranks #4,667 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
906
4 guesses
1,177
5 guesses
206
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:
LSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
23%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

89 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

632
307
230
112
109
100
94
73
66
49
47
35
34
30
29
23
22
20
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11
11
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CLUBS:

27% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
13% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
10% chance
Suggested:
RAILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.8% →
ROATE 6.11 bits
13.0% →
TIARE 5.82 bits
9.8% →
RAILE 5.32 bits
4.7% →
TIARE 5.50 bits
4.6% →
RONTE 4.89 bits
4.2% →
ORATE 5.30 bits
4.0% →
IRATE 5.52 bits
3.1% →
ATONE 5.03 bits
2.8% →
SALLE 4.78 bits
2.1% →
GRATE 4.66 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3L1U1B3S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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