5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

SHEOL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

Alternative letter-case form of Sheol.

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 SHEOL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SHEOL 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 88.6% of games, misses completely in 11.4%, and leaves about 120 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,575 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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 _H__L H in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

REATE TRAIN ADORN RAINY RAILE RONTE
Words starting with S Words ending with L

First-turn measures

5.17 Entropy (bits)
120 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 91% of evaluated openers
0.78 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SHEOL 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#2,575 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHEOL ranks #2,575 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
74
3 guesses
955
4 guesses
1,115
5 guesses
184
6 guesses
24
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
2 vowels
Common:
ELOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
34%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

111 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

320
268
152
122
119
100
89
63
62
59
59
54
53
53
44
41
40
40
32
30
29
28
28
26
22
19
18
17
17
17

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHEOL:

14% chance
Suggested:
REATE
11% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
6% chance
Suggested:
ADORN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.6% →
REATE 5.43 bits
11.4% →
TRAIN 5.96 bits
6.4% →
ADORN 4.96 bits
5.2% →
RAINY 4.63 bits
5.0% →
RAILE 4.69 bits
4.2% →
RONTE 4.56 bits
3.8% →
SCANT 4.62 bits
2.7% →
MIRTH 4.49 bits
2.6% →
MANOR 4.46 bits
2.5% →
TRADE 4.40 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4E1O1L1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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