5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SHOTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ʃɑts/

Noun

plural of shot

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of shot

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 SHOTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SHOTS 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 68.7% of games, misses completely in 31.3%, and leaves about 304 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,793 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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__T_ S in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _H__S H in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE MARLE ARIEL PLANE BRANE CARLE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.13 Entropy (bits)
304 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 29% of evaluated openers
1.82 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SHOTS 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#8,793 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHOTS ranks #8,793 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
841
4 guesses
1,191
5 guesses
257
6 guesses
23
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:
OST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
33%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

79 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

739
239
213
149
113
72
71
69
66
51
40
38
34
34
33
29
26
21
21
21
20
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17
17
15
13
11
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10
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHOTS:

31% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
10% chance
Suggested:
MARLE
9% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.3% →
RAILE 6.26 bits
10.1% →
MARLE 5.23 bits
9.0% →
ARIEL 5.69 bits
6.3% →
PLANE 5.36 bits
4.8% →
BRANE 4.60 bits
3.1% →
CARLE 4.96 bits
3.0% →
LEANT 4.61 bits
2.9% →
TENOR 4.43 bits
2.8% →
PAIRE 5.11 bits
2.2% →
RAILE 4.68 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4O1T1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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