5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

SHOTE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of shoat (“young pig”).

Noun

A fish resembling the trout, the grayling (Thymallus thymallus).

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 SHOTE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SHOTE 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 86.8% of games, misses completely in 13.2%, and leaves about 117 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,389 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__T_ S in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _H__E H in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

GRAIL ARIEL RAILE LAIRY TRAIL CLARY
Words starting with S Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.31 Entropy (bits)
117 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 95% of evaluated openers
0.64 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SHOTE 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#3,389 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHOTE ranks #3,389 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
73
3 guesses
943
4 guesses
1,110
5 guesses
207
6 guesses
21
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EOST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
42%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

123 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

312
264
163
155
97
97
84
78
62
49
48
45
41
35
35
30
29
27
26
25
24
24
22
22
20
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17

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHOTE:

13% chance
Suggested:
GRAIL
11% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
7% chance
Suggested:
RAILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.2% →
GRAIL 5.66 bits
11.2% →
ARIEL 5.21 bits
6.9% →
RAILE 4.45 bits
6.6% →
LAIRY 4.99 bits
4.1% →
TRAIL 5.39 bits
4.1% →
ARIEL 4.60 bits
3.6% →
CLARY 4.82 bits
3.3% →
FROND 4.12 bits
2.6% →
OWNER 4.02 bits
2.1% →
TONIC 4.16 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4O1T1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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