5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SCULS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of scul

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 SCULS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SCULS 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 68.7% of games, misses completely in 31.3%, and leaves about 321 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,598 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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___S S in the 1st position and S in the 5th position S__L_ S in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _C__S C in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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ROATE TIARE PARTE RONTE DAINE CLEAN
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.93 Entropy (bits)
321 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 19% of evaluated openers
2.02 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SCULS 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#9,598 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SCULS ranks #9,598 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
804
4 guesses
1,225
5 guesses
264
6 guesses
19
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
1 vowels
Common:
LSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
28%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

73 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

738
272
221
187
133
117
86
58
55
39
31
30
28
26
21
21
20
20
19
18
17
15
14
11
11
9
9
9
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SCULS:

31% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
12% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
9% chance
Suggested:
TIARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.3% →
ROATE 6.12 bits
11.5% →
ROATE 5.38 bits
9.4% →
TIARE 5.64 bits
7.9% →
PARTE 5.48 bits
5.6% →
RONTE 4.98 bits
5.0% →
ROATE 5.60 bits
3.6% →
DAINE 4.79 bits
2.5% →
CLEAN 4.74 bits
2.3% →
GRATE 4.64 bits
1.7% →
ATONE 4.44 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1C3U1L1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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