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SILTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /sɪlts/

Noun

plural of silt

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of silt

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 SILTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SILTS 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 75.3% of games, misses completely in 24.7%, and leaves about 226 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,495 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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.
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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 _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in SILTS.

First-turn measures

All four describe SILTS used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.40 Entropy (bits)
226 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 45% of evaluated openers
1.54 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SILTS 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#5,495 Rank among openers
Opening with SILTS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,495 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
894
4 guesses
1,189
5 guesses
206
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ILST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
33%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

SILTS can come back 82 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

587 answers
255 answers
192 answers
164 answers
136 answers
81 answers
72 answers
70 answers
68 answers
64 answers
61 answers
57 answers
54 answers
40 answers
35 answers
33 answers
27 answers
26 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1I1L1T1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

CARNE CRANE CARET DRONE CLADE PORAE

Strategy after playing SILTS

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SILTS.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SILTS:

25% chance
Suggested:
CARNE
11% chance
Suggested:
CRANE
8% chance
Suggested:
CARET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.7% →
CARNE 6.12 bits
10.7% →
CRANE 5.33 bits
8.1% →
CARET 5.52 bits
6.9% →
CRANE 5.56 bits
5.7% →
CARNE 5.39 bits
3.4% →
DRONE 4.65 bits
3.0% →
CRANE 4.67 bits
2.9% →
CLADE 4.58 bits
2.9% →
PORAE 4.89 bits
2.7% →
PEART 4.43 bits

Research on SILTS

Game-tree analysis and word research for SILTS, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with SILTS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,242 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.88 guesses at best and is rank #3,707 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it SIHLTS. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SILTS is a kind of soil or foul.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SILTS sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.2 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).