5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SLAMS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of slam

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of slam

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 SLAMS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SLAMS 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 73.3% of games, misses completely in 26.7%, and leaves about 252 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,381 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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__M_ S in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _L__S L in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRONE TONER LIBEL TRINE TALER DRICE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.24 Entropy (bits)
252 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 35% of evaluated openers
1.70 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SLAMS 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#8,381 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SLAMS ranks #8,381 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
811
4 guesses
1,253
5 guesses
233
6 guesses
12
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:
ALS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
34%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

79 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

630
268
182
163
120
117
101
85
75
54
47
35
35
35
32
30
29
23
22
20
16
13
13
12
11
11
11
10
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SLAMS:

27% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
11% chance
Suggested:
TONER
8% chance
Suggested:
LIBEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.7% →
TRONE 6.14 bits
11.4% →
TONER 5.44 bits
7.7% →
LIBEL 5.02 bits
6.9% →
TRINE 5.24 bits
5.1% →
TALER 4.55 bits
5.0% →
DRICE 5.04 bits
4.3% →
RUOTE 5.51 bits
3.6% →
TONER 5.25 bits
3.2% →
CRINE 4.55 bits
2.3% →
CARNE 4.50 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1L1A1M3S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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