5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SLAWS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of slaw

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 SLAWS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SLAWS 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 71.4% of games, misses completely in 28.6%, and leaves about 285 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,754 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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__W_ S in the 1st position and W in the 4th position _L__S L in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

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

First-turn measures

4.05 Entropy (bits)
285 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 25% of evaluated openers
1.90 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SLAWS 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#10,754 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SLAWS ranks #10,754 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
762
4 guesses
1,254
5 guesses
283
6 guesses
16
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)
71%
Green tile
33%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

70 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

674
312
177
158
130
114
103
80
63
50
37
36
36
34
31
24
23
22
20
19
17
13
12
12
11
11
9
9
7
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SLAWS:

29% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
13% chance
Suggested:
TONER
8% chance
Suggested:
LIBEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.6% →
TRONE 6.07 bits
13.2% →
TONER 5.41 bits
7.5% →
LIBEL 5.07 bits
6.7% →
TRINE 5.23 bits
5.5% →
CARTE 4.49 bits
4.8% →
DRICE 5.04 bits
4.4% →
RUOTE 5.47 bits
3.4% →
COURE 4.47 bits
2.7% →
RONTE 5.04 bits
2.1% →
CRUET 3.79 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1L1A1W4S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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