5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

SALLE

SALLE 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

A fencing school.

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 SALLE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SALLE 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 84.9% of games, misses completely in 15.1%, and leaves about 129 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,140 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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.

S___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__L_ S in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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COUNT TENOR TRAIN GRICE RONTE SNOUT
Words starting with S Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.09 Entropy (bits)
129 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 88% of evaluated openers
0.86 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SALLE 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#7,140 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SALLE ranks #7,140 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
826
4 guesses
1,209
5 guesses
224
6 guesses
23
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AELS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
47%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

106 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

355
251
147
138
129
102
83
75
74
72
63
53
50
41
40
37
37
34
31
27
26
23
20
20
19
18
18
17
14
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SALLE:

15% chance
Suggested:
COUNT
11% chance
Suggested:
TENOR
6% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.1% →
COUNT 5.80 bits
10.6% →
TENOR 5.17 bits
6.2% →
TRAIN 5.31 bits
5.9% →
GRICE 4.34 bits
5.5% →
RONTE 4.08 bits
4.3% →
SNOUT 4.48 bits
3.5% →
CLOUT 4.50 bits
3.2% →
TREAD 4.68 bits
3.1% →
FLAIR 4.24 bits
3.1% →
MOIST 4.87 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1A1L1L1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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