5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SHIMS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of shim

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of shim

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 SHIMS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SHIMS 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 63.5% of games, misses completely in 36.5%, and leaves about 387 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,186 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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__M_ S in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _H__S H in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE LINER LEANT GRATE CARTE MORAE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.74 Entropy (bits)
387 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 13% of evaluated openers
2.21 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SHIMS 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,186 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHIMS ranks #11,186 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
733
4 guesses
1,265
5 guesses
281
6 guesses
26
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:
IS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
31%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

74 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

860
240
197
145
126
119
109
43
43
41
39
38
35
28
28
23
22
20
19
18
17
10
8
8
8
8
7
7
6
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHIMS:

36% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
10% chance
Suggested:
LINER
8% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

36.5% →
ROATE 5.99 bits
10.2% →
LINER 5.21 bits
8.4% →
LEANT 5.34 bits
6.1% →
GRATE 4.97 bits
5.3% →
CARTE 5.41 bits
5.0% →
MORAE 5.31 bits
4.6% →
ROATE 5.43 bits
1.8% →
TRACE 4.92 bits
1.8% →
LATER 4.16 bits
1.7% →
LEANT 4.00 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4I1M3S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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