5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

SKIRT

Yes, SKIRT was the Wordle answer on January 2, 2023 (Wordle #562).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /skɜːt//skɚt//skɪɾt/

Noun

A separate article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower torso and part of the legs.

Noun

A similar part of a dress or robe, etc., that hangs below the waist.

Verb

To be on or form the border of.

“The plain was skirted by rows of trees.”

Verb

To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of.

“skirt a mountain”

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: January 2, 2023 (#562).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How SKIRT performs as a guess

SKIRT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 81.6% of games, misses completely in 18.4%, and leaves about 159 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,454 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

S___T S in the 1st position and T in the 5th position S__R_ S in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _K__T K in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

ALONE CANOE LIANE HAOLE PLANE CLADE
Words starting with S Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.88 Entropy (bits)
159 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 76% of evaluated openers
1.07 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SKIRT 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#2,454 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SKIRT ranks #2,454 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
1,019
4 guesses
1,063
5 guesses
200
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IRST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
36%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U I T
S H I R T
S K I R T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SKIRT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

95 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

435
294
143
123
99
87
74
72
70
67
65
64
47
40
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37
36
31
31
27
26
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26
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21
18
18
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15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SKIRT:

18% chance
Suggested:
ALONE
12% chance
Suggested:
CANOE
6% chance
Suggested:
LIANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.4% →
ALONE 6.02 bits
12.5% →
CANOE 5.28 bits
6.1% →
LIANE 5.04 bits
5.2% →
HAOLE 5.35 bits
4.2% →
PLANE 5.14 bits
3.7% →
HAOLE 5.11 bits
3.1% →
ALONE 5.04 bits
3.1% →
CLADE 4.92 bits
3.0% →
TARTE 4.59 bits
2.8% →
CLONE 5.09 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1K5I1R1T1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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