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Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

SHITS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ʃɪts/

Noun

plural of shit

Noun

Synonym of diarrhea.

“He had the shits for three days.”

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of shit

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 SHITS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SHITS 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 67.4% of games, misses completely in 32.6%, and leaves about 318 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,679 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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.

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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 _H__S H in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in SHITS.

First-turn measures

All four describe SHITS used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.13 Entropy (bits)
318 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 29% of evaluated openers
1.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SHITS 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#9,679 Rank among openers
Opening with SHITS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It ranks #9,679 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
822
4 guesses
1,181
5 guesses
283
6 guesses
24
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
34%
All gray
33%

Feedback distribution

SHITS can come back 81 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

774 answers
205 answers
205 answers
143 answers
120 answers
94 answers
72 answers
68 answers
63 answers
44 answers
37 answers
37 answers
33 answers
31 answers
31 answers
29 answers
27 answers
24 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4I1T1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

CARLE TALER LINER PARLE CRANE CARNE

Strategy after playing SHITS

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SHITS.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHITS:

33% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
9% chance
Suggested:
TALER
9% chance
Suggested:
LINER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.6% →
CARLE 6.06 bits
8.6% →
TALER 5.41 bits
8.6% →
LINER 5.30 bits
6.0% →
PARLE 5.42 bits
5.1% →
CRANE 4.90 bits
4.0% →
CARNE 5.16 bits
3.0% →
ALURE 4.42 bits
2.9% →
LEANT 4.47 bits
2.7% →
ROULE 4.93 bits
1.9% →
PARLE 4.56 bits

Research on SHITS

Game-tree analysis and word research for SHITS, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with SHITS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,940 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.96 guesses at best and is rank #5,404 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it SHIHTS.

Rhymes with BLITZ BRITS FRITZ QUITS SPITS

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SHITS is a kind of stool or rot.

Synonyms make damn shop jack bullshit crap

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SHITS sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).