5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SELLS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /sɛlz/

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of sell

Noun

plural of sell

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 SELLS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SELLS 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 73.2% of games, misses completely in 26.8%, and leaves about 298 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,490 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.87 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 _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIN ORATE FLAIR ROANY CARTE ARENE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.88 Entropy (bits)
298 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 18% of evaluated openers
2.06 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SELLS 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.

3.87 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#13,490 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SELLS ranks #13,490 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
30
3 guesses
663
4 guesses
1,282
5 guesses
343
6 guesses
34
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

3/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ELS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
35%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

61 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

631
433
171
157
141
113
103
88
65
45
37
34
30
23
20
18
17
14
14
13
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12
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9
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SELLS:

27% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
18% chance
Suggested:
ORATE
7% chance
Suggested:
FLAIR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.8% →
TRAIN 5.99 bits
18.4% →
ORATE 5.24 bits
7.3% →
FLAIR 4.82 bits
6.7% →
ROANY 4.68 bits
6.0% →
CARTE 4.45 bits
4.8% →
ARENE 4.44 bits
4.4% →
PARTE 4.72 bits
3.7% →
TRASH 4.84 bits
2.8% →
RUOTE 4.52 bits
1.9% →
DAILY 4.00 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1E1L1L1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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