5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

SHOOT

SHOOT is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 87.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ʃuːt//ʃʉwt//ʃut/

Verb

To launch (forcefully project) a projectile.

“to shoot a gun”

Verb

To move or act quickly or suddenly.

“After an initial lag, the experimental group's scores shot past the control group's scores in the fourth week.”

Noun

The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.

Noun

A photography session.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 SHOOT performs as a guess

SHOOT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 68.7% of games, misses completely in 31.3%, and leaves about 287 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,927 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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___T S in the 1st position and T in the 5th position S__O_ S in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _H__T H in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE MARLE PLANE TARTE ARIEL CRANE
Words starting with S Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.35 Entropy (bits)
287 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
87.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 42% of evaluated openers
1.60 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SHOOT 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#6,927 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHOOT ranks #6,927 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
873
4 guesses
1,171
5 guesses
234
6 guesses
22
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:
OST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
38%
All gray
31%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P U N C H
G H O S T
S H O O T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SHOOT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

95 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

739
172
154
151
113
94
84
72
56
54
45
41
40
35
28
28
27
27
25
25
20
19
15
15
14
14
13
13
12
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHOOT:

31% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
7% chance
Suggested:
MARLE
7% chance
Suggested:
PLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.3% →
RAILE 6.26 bits
7.3% →
MARLE 5.08 bits
6.5% →
PLANE 5.35 bits
6.4% →
TARTE 5.48 bits
4.8% →
ARIEL 5.24 bits
4.0% →
RAILE 5.24 bits
3.6% →
CRANE 4.77 bits
3.1% →
CARLE 4.96 bits
2.4% →
RAIKE 4.50 bits
2.3% →
MARLE 4.61 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4O1O1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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