5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

SLEET

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /sliːt/

Noun

Pellets of ice made of mostly-frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes.

Noun

Precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow.

Verb

To be in a state in which sleet is falling.

“I won't bother going out until it's stopped sleeting.”

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 SLEET performs as a guess

SLEET 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 82.4% of games, misses completely in 17.6%, and leaves about 138 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,559 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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__E_ S in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _L__T L in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

ROANY IRADE LOYAL NORTH RAINY RIONE
Words starting with S Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.13 Entropy (bits)
138 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 89% of evaluated openers
0.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SLEET 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#3,559 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SLEET ranks #3,559 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
70
3 guesses
916
4 guesses
1,158
5 guesses
190
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
45%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L E E T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SLEET in 2 guesses.

Feedback distribution

116 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

416
209
158
139
111
98
76
72
72
71
68
43
41
40
37
33
28
27
26
26
25
23
23
20
18
17
16
15
15
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SLEET:

18% chance
Suggested:
ROANY
9% chance
Suggested:
IRADE
7% chance
Suggested:
LOYAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.6% →
ROANY 5.76 bits
8.9% →
IRADE 5.16 bits
6.7% →
LOYAL 5.05 bits
5.9% →
NORTH 4.98 bits
4.7% →
RAINY 4.36 bits
4.2% →
ROANY 4.75 bits
3.2% →
RIONE 4.44 bits
3.1% →
FLANK 4.22 bits
3.1% →
AMISS 4.77 bits
3.0% →
REALM 4.23 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1L1E1E1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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