5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

SHALT

SHALT is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ʃælt/

Verb

second-person singular simple present indicative of shall

“Thou shalt not kill.”

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 SHALT performs as a guess

SHALT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 82.1% of games, misses completely in 17.9%, and leaves about 134 possible answers on average.

In the current bounded six-turn policy, it ranks #74 of 182 evaluated openers; exact misses rank first, then average guesses among wins.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #22 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.53 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___T S in the 1st position and T in the 5th position S__L_ S in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _H__T H in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

DRONE RAMEN RIONE NOIRE RENAL PRONE
Words starting with S Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.27 Entropy (bits)
134 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 94% of evaluated openers
0.68 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SHALT 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.

3.53 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#22 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHALT ranks #22 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
76
3 guesses
1,088
4 guesses
1,048
5 guesses
132
6 guesses
8
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ALST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
40%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N K
S H A L T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SHALT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

129 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

422
208
157
99
98
94
72
68
66
60
56
55
46
43
36
28
28
28
27
27
25
24
23
22
22
21
20
16
16
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHALT:

18% chance
Suggested:
DRONE
9% chance
Suggested:
RAMEN
7% chance
Suggested:
RIONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.9% →
DRONE 6.15 bits
8.8% →
RAMEN 5.28 bits
6.7% →
RIONE 5.00 bits
4.2% →
NOIRE 5.31 bits
4.2% →
RENAL 4.71 bits
4.0% →
PRONE 5.11 bits
3.1% →
RIONE 5.13 bits
2.9% →
DRICE 4.58 bits
2.8% →
GOIER 4.88 bits
2.5% →
DRICE 4.45 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4A1L1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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