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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess S tier opener

SLATE

Yes, SLATE was the Wordle answer on December 19, 2022 (Wordle #548).

As an opener, it rules out about 96.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /sleɪt//slet/

Noun

A flake or piece of certain types of stone that tend to cleave into thin layers.

Noun

A generally rectangular piece, originally of certain types of stone and now of other materials, often in a frame, used for writing on with a thin rod of the same or another stone (a slate pencil) or with chalk; a small chalkboard.

Adjective

Having the bluish-grey colour of slate (noun etymology 1, noun sense 4).

Verb

To cover (a building, or part of a building such as a floor or roof) with slates (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.1).

“The old church ledgers show that the roof was slated in 1775.”

Alternative forms: sclate

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: December 19, 2022 (#548).

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

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How SLATE performs as a guess

SLATE 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 90.3% of games, misses completely in 9.7%, and leaves about 73 possible answers on average.

In the current bounded six-turn policy, it ranks #17 of 182 evaluated openers; exact misses rank first, then average guesses among wins.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #87 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.55 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__T_ S in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _L__E L in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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IRONY DECOR RAYON GRICE TONIC DILLY
Words starting with S Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.86 Entropy (bits)
73 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.9% Avg ruled out
In the top 1% for first-turn entropy
Within 0.1 bits of the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SLATE 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.

3.55 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#87 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SLATE ranks #87 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
108
3 guesses
1,010
4 guesses
1,069
5 guesses
148
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:
AELST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
46%
All gray
10%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C L A S P
S L A T E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SLATE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

148 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

228
169
139
108
90
88
72
62
62
59
57
52
49
43
39
39
37
33
31
31
29
28
27
25
24
24
21
20
20
19

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SLATE:

10% chance
Suggested:
IRONY
7% chance
Suggested:
DECOR
6% chance
Suggested:
RAYON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.7% →
IRONY 5.45 bits
7.2% →
DECOR 4.91 bits
5.9% →
RAYON 5.04 bits
4.6% →
GRICE 4.41 bits
3.8% →
TONIC 4.93 bits
3.7% →
DILLY 4.83 bits
3.1% →
DETER 4.71 bits
2.6% →
AMBER 4.12 bits
2.6% →
LEVEL 4.06 bits
2.5% →
RAINY 4.14 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1L1A1T1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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