5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

SLAIN

SLAIN is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 95.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /sleɪ̯n//slæɪ̯n//slen/

Verb

past participle of slay

Noun

Those who have been killed.

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

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 SLAIN performs as a guess

SLAIN 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 86.0% of games, misses completely in 14.0%, and leaves about 106 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #262 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.57 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___N S in the 1st position and N in the 5th position S__I_ S in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _L__N L in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

TRODE CARTE ROULE ROUTE PATER TRUCE
Words starting with S Words ending with N

First-turn measures

5.39 Entropy (bits)
106 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 97% of evaluated openers
0.56 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SLAIN 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.

3.57 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#262 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SLAIN ranks #262 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
72
3 guesses
1,054
4 guesses
1,045
5 guesses
164
6 guesses
15
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
2 vowels
Common:
AILNS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
40%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
S L A I N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SLAIN in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

125 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

331
192
144
103
101
95
91
87
86
77
53
49
48
44
39
33
32
30
30
27
27
27
26
25
24
21
21
20
20
19

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SLAIN:

14% chance
Suggested:
TRODE
8% chance
Suggested:
CARTE
6% chance
Suggested:
TRODE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.0% →
TRODE 5.93 bits
8.1% →
CARTE 5.33 bits
6.1% →
TRODE 5.23 bits
4.4% →
ROULE 4.74 bits
4.3% →
ROUTE 5.08 bits
4.0% →
PATER 4.68 bits
3.9% →
TRUCE 5.13 bits
3.7% →
TORSE 5.17 bits
3.6% →
PORTE 4.93 bits
3.3% →
TONEY 4.50 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1L1A1I1N1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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