5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

SLAVE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /sleɪv/

Noun

A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.

Noun

A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant.

Verb

To work as a slaver, to enslave people.

Verb

To work hard.

“I was slaving all day over a hot stove.”

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 SLAVE performs as a guess

SLAVE 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 85.5% of games, misses completely in 14.5%, and leaves about 121 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,631 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__V_ S in the 1st position and V in the 4th position _L__E L in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

COUNT DETER CARAT GRICE SNOUT DILLY
Words starting with S Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.19 Entropy (bits)
121 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 91% of evaluated openers
0.76 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SLAVE 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#4,631 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SLAVE ranks #4,631 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
78
3 guesses
852
4 guesses
1,218
5 guesses
184
6 guesses
18
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:
AELS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
43%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
S L A V E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SLAVE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

108 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

343
224
197
122
102
100
83
69
66
63
62
48
39
38
37
36
35
31
30
28
26
26
25
22
22
22
22
21
20
18

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SLAVE:

15% chance
Suggested:
COUNT
9% chance
Suggested:
DETER
8% chance
Suggested:
CARAT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.5% →
COUNT 5.81 bits
9.5% →
DETER 5.43 bits
8.4% →
CARAT 4.94 bits
5.2% →
GRICE 4.38 bits
4.3% →
SNOUT 4.48 bits
4.2% →
DILLY 4.83 bits
3.5% →
CATER 4.30 bits
2.9% →
HOIST 4.81 bits
2.8% →
DRICE 4.21 bits
2.7% →
LOWER 3.91 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1L1A1V4E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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