5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SKELL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

a homeless person, especially one who sleeps in the New York subway.

“Did you see those two skells lying in the doorway?”

Noun

A male suspicious person or crime suspect, especially a street person such as a drug dealer, pimp or panhandler.

Verb

To fall off or fall over.

“She went skelling over on the ice.”

Alternative forms: skel

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 SKELL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SKELL 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 75.7% of games, misses completely in 24.3%, and leaves about 271 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,621 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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___L S in the 1st position and L in the 5th position S__L_ S in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _K__L K in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIN ROATE ROAST PLAIN LEARE PARTE
Words starting with S Words ending with L

First-turn measures

4.13 Entropy (bits)
271 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.5% 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 SKELL 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#11,621 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SKELL ranks #11,621 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
723
4 guesses
1,275
5 guesses
293
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ELS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
31%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

71 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

574
469
133
119
109
104
81
73
68
57
57
46
42
32
30
29
25
24
22
21
19
19
15
13
12
10
9
9
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SKELL:

24% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
20% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
6% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.3% →
TRAIN 5.98 bits
19.9% →
ROATE 5.28 bits
5.6% →
ROAST 4.68 bits
5.0% →
PLAIN 4.81 bits
4.6% →
ROAST 4.96 bits
4.4% →
LEARE 4.51 bits
3.4% →
ROAST 4.81 bits
3.1% →
PARTE 4.43 bits
2.9% →
TRADE 4.74 bits
2.4% →
SONAR 4.05 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1K5E1L1L1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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