5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet A tier opener

SLANT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈslɑːnt//ˈslant//ˈslaːnt/

Noun

A slope; an incline, inclination.

“The house was built on a bit of a slant and was never quite level.”

Noun

A sloped surface or line.

Verb

To lean, tilt or incline.

“If you slant the track a little more, the marble will roll down it faster.”

Verb

To bias or skew.

“The group tends to slant its policies in favor of the big businesses it serves.”

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 SLANT performs as a guess

SLANT 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 86.2% of games, misses completely in 13.8%, and leaves about 101 possible answers on average.

In the current bounded six-turn policy, it ranks #1 of 182 evaluated openers; exact misses rank first, then average guesses among wins.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.51 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___T S in the 1st position and T in the 5th position S__N_ S in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _L__T L in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

DECOR CADRE LIBEL TRITE DINER CARLE
Words starting with S Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.49 Entropy (bits)
101 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 98% of evaluated openers
0.46 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SLANT 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.

3.51 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#1 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SLANT ranks #1 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
79
3 guesses
1,144
4 guesses
996
5 guesses
117
6 guesses
14
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:
ALNST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
41%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SLANT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

132 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

326
158
147
133
123
86
76
75
68
61
56
55
55
53
32
30
29
27
25
24
24
23
23
23
22
20
20
20
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18

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SLANT:

14% chance
Suggested:
DECOR
7% chance
Suggested:
CADRE
6% chance
Suggested:
LIBEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.8% →
DECOR 5.66 bits
6.7% →
CADRE 5.20 bits
6.2% →
LIBEL 4.99 bits
5.6% →
TRITE 5.40 bits
5.2% →
DINER 5.23 bits
3.6% →
CARLE 4.45 bits
3.2% →
POIRE 4.88 bits
3.2% →
HORSE 4.96 bits
2.9% →
DRICE 4.86 bits
2.6% →
CROME 4.70 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1L1A1N1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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