5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SHOOS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 79.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of shoo

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 SHOOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SHOOS 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 57.5% of games, misses completely in 42.5%, and leaves about 496 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,004 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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__O_ S in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _H__S H in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE PLANE TALER CARTE TARSE MARLE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.40 Entropy (bits)
496 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
79.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 5% of evaluated openers
2.55 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SHOOS 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#14,004 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHOOS ranks #14,004 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
624
4 guesses
1,279
5 guesses
373
6 guesses
43
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
58%
Green tile
32%
All gray
42%

Feedback distribution

62 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1003
230
227
129
116
105
72
64
44
40
39
30
29
16
16
16
12
12
12
11
10
8
8
8
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6
6
5
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHOOS:

43% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
10% chance
Suggested:
PLANE
10% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

42.5% →
RAILE 6.22 bits
9.8% →
PLANE 5.37 bits
9.6% →
TALER 4.88 bits
5.5% →
CARTE 5.25 bits
4.9% →
TARSE 5.37 bits
4.5% →
PLANE 4.63 bits
3.1% →
MARLE 4.57 bits
2.7% →
TRICE 5.09 bits
1.9% →
CRUET 4.30 bits
1.7% →
LATER 4.18 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4O1O1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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