5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SHOPS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ʃɑps//ʃɒps/

Noun

plural of shop

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of shop

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 SHOPS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SHOPS 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 63.8% of games, misses completely in 36.2%, and leaves about 385 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,421 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__P_ S in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _H__S H in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE TALER LEANT BRANE CARTE URITE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.77 Entropy (bits)
385 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 14% of evaluated openers
2.17 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SHOPS 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
0.71 Volatility
#11,421 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHOPS ranks #11,421 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
744
4 guesses
1,258
5 guesses
288
6 guesses
25
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:
OS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
30%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

71 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

853
291
172
128
119
109
92
58
54
45
37
35
30
27
25
22
22
16
15
15
13
12
11
10
9
9
8
7
7
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHOPS:

36% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
12% chance
Suggested:
TALER
7% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

36.2% →
RAILE 6.24 bits
12.3% →
TALER 5.25 bits
7.3% →
LEANT 5.42 bits
5.4% →
RAILE 5.45 bits
5.0% →
BRANE 4.64 bits
4.6% →
CARTE 5.26 bits
3.9% →
URITE 5.33 bits
2.5% →
TRICE 5.10 bits
2.3% →
CARET 4.60 bits
1.9% →
CRUET 4.33 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4O1P3S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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