5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SHULS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of shul

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 SHULS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SHULS 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 67.0% of games, misses completely in 33.0%, and leaves about 341 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,920 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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__L_ S in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _H__S H in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

RAINE ROATE PARTE RONTE CARTE DAINE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.92 Entropy (bits)
341 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 19% of evaluated openers
2.03 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SHULS 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#10,920 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHULS ranks #10,920 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
798
4 guesses
1,174
5 guesses
315
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:
LSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
31%
All gray
33%

Feedback distribution

74 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

777
309
176
148
127
105
83
61
53
40
39
34
27
25
24
23
22
21
19
18
16
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11
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8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHULS:

33% chance
Suggested:
RAINE
13% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
7% chance
Suggested:
PARTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.0% →
RAINE 6.09 bits
13.1% →
ROATE 5.26 bits
7.5% →
PARTE 5.46 bits
6.3% →
RONTE 5.01 bits
5.4% →
CARTE 5.51 bits
4.5% →
ROATE 5.47 bits
3.5% →
DAINE 4.81 bits
2.6% →
TRICE 5.24 bits
2.2% →
TRODE 4.76 bits
1.7% →
OLATE 4.37 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4U1L1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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