5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SCUTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of scut

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 SCUTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SCUTS 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 66.5% of games, misses completely in 33.5%, and leaves about 340 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,197 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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__T_ S in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _C__S C in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ARIEL CRANE PARLE MARLE RAINE RAILE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.92 Entropy (bits)
340 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.6% 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 SCUTS 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#9,197 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SCUTS ranks #9,197 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
811
4 guesses
1,231
5 guesses
253
6 guesses
17
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:
STU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
28%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

71 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

789
231
226
160
129
81
79
76
57
48
44
39
32
28
22
21
17
17
16
16
15
15
14
14
12
12
10
10
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SCUTS:

33% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
10% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
10% chance
Suggested:
CRANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.5% →
ARIEL 6.15 bits
9.8% →
ARIEL 5.64 bits
9.6% →
CRANE 5.63 bits
6.8% →
PARLE 5.33 bits
5.5% →
MARLE 4.82 bits
3.4% →
RAINE 5.15 bits
3.4% →
RAILE 4.64 bits
3.2% →
HAOLE 4.66 bits
2.4% →
NAICE 4.37 bits
2.0% →
GRONE 4.47 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1C3U1T1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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