5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SALOL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Phenyl salicylate; a, odorless, tasteless, white crystalline powder, nearly insoluble in water, but soluble in chloroform, ether, oils, and certain concentrations of alcohol, which is split up in the intestines into salicylic acid and phenol, and which is used for certain medicinal purposes.

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 SALOL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SALOL 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 81.2% of games, misses completely in 18.8%, and leaves about 169 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,521 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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___L S in the 1st position and L in the 5th position S__O_ S in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _A__L A in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

TRINE RONTE TRACE CLINE HEIST PEART
Words starting with S Words ending with L

First-turn measures

4.70 Entropy (bits)
169 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 65% of evaluated openers
1.25 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SALOL 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#6,521 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SALOL ranks #6,521 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
875
4 guesses
1,193
5 guesses
212
6 guesses
22
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:
ALOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
40%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

93 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

443
251
208
157
121
118
88
83
82
52
51
50
48
46
39
38
27
27
26
24
24
19
15
14
14
14
13
13
13
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SALOL:

19% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
11% chance
Suggested:
RONTE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRACE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.8% →
TRINE 6.12 bits
10.6% →
RONTE 5.34 bits
8.8% →
TRACE 5.62 bits
6.7% →
TRINE 4.76 bits
5.1% →
CLINE 4.98 bits
5.0% →
TRINE 5.22 bits
3.7% →
HEIST 5.00 bits
3.5% →
PEART 4.52 bits
3.5% →
CRAPE 4.31 bits
2.2% →
CRUET 4.10 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1A1L1O1L1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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