5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SHOOL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To move materials with a shovel.

“The workers were shooling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.”

Verb

To move with a shoveling motion, to cover as by shoveling

Noun

A shovel.

Noun

A spade.

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 SHOOL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SHOOL 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 72.6% of games, misses completely in 27.4%, and leaves about 257 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,638 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.

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

TIARE RAILE RONTE TARSE CARTE RAINE
Words starting with S Words ending with L

First-turn measures

4.30 Entropy (bits)
257 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 38% of evaluated openers
1.65 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SHOOL 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
100.0% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#9,638 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHOOL ranks #9,638 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
818
4 guesses
1,168
5 guesses
287
6 guesses
28
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
2 vowels
Common:
LOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
36%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

87 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

647
267
171
167
122
106
89
69
56
55
48
39
38
34
34
33
28
24
22
21
21
16
14
14
9
9
9
9
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHOOL:

27% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
11% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
7% chance
Suggested:
TIARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.4% →
TIARE 6.17 bits
11.3% →
RAILE 5.35 bits
7.3% →
TIARE 5.34 bits
7.1% →
RONTE 5.27 bits
5.2% →
TARSE 5.42 bits
4.5% →
CARTE 5.30 bits
3.8% →
RAINE 4.61 bits
2.9% →
CRANE 4.40 bits
2.4% →
RAINE 4.46 bits
2.3% →
TRICE 5.05 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4O1O1L1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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