5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

MELTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of melt

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of melt

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 MELTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts MELTS 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 86.3% of games, misses completely in 13.7%, and leaves about 131 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,455 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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.

M___S M in the 1st position and S in the 5th position M__T_ M in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROANY IRADE CAROL TRAIN RAINY PAIRE
Words starting with M Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.98 Entropy (bits)
131 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 83% of evaluated openers
0.97 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How MELTS 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#1,455 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, MELTS ranks #1,455 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
76
3 guesses
945
4 guesses
1,171
5 guesses
147
6 guesses
15
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:
ELST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
25%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

104 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

324
268
159
146
125
115
114
86
86
83
52
48
47
41
40
39
34
32
31
28
23
22
21
20
19
18
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16
15
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing MELTS:

14% chance
Suggested:
ROANY
11% chance
Suggested:
IRADE
7% chance
Suggested:
CAROL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.7% →
ROANY 5.81 bits
11.4% →
IRADE 5.14 bits
6.7% →
CAROL 4.93 bits
6.2% →
TRAIN 5.40 bits
5.3% →
RAINY 4.90 bits
4.9% →
PAIRE 4.91 bits
4.8% →
AINEE 4.63 bits
3.6% →
ROAST 4.60 bits
3.6% →
TREAT 4.63 bits
3.5% →
RANCE 4.74 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

M3E1L1T1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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