5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SKIDS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 82.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /skɪdz/

Noun

plural of skid

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of skid

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 SKIDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SKIDS 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 62.3% of games, misses completely in 37.7%, and leaves about 417 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,647 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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__D_ S in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _K__S K in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE LINER PARTE DROLE TRONE CARLE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.49 Entropy (bits)
417 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 7% of evaluated openers
2.46 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SKIDS 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#12,647 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SKIDS ranks #12,647 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
25
3 guesses
689
4 guesses
1,320
5 guesses
301
6 guesses
19
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:
IS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
62%
Green tile
29%
All gray
38%

Feedback distribution

50 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

890
239
203
167
147
132
104
73
48
39
38
28
28
23
18
17
17
17
12
11
11
8
8
8
7
6
5
5
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SKIDS:

38% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
10% chance
Suggested:
LINER
9% chance
Suggested:
PARTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

37.7% →
ROATE 6.14 bits
10.1% →
LINER 5.17 bits
8.6% →
PARTE 5.49 bits
7.1% →
DROLE 5.40 bits
6.2% →
ROATE 5.52 bits
5.6% →
TRONE 5.07 bits
4.4% →
CARLE 5.49 bits
3.1% →
LATER 4.51 bits
2.0% →
RUOTE 4.44 bits
1.7% →
THANE 4.27 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1K5I1D2S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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