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SLOSH

Yes, SLOSH was the Wordle answer on March 22, 2022 (Wordle #276).

As an opener, it rules out about 88.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /slɒʃ//slɑʃ/

Verb

To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.

“The water in his bottle sloshed back and forth as he ran.”

Verb

To cause to slosh.

“The boy sloshed water over the edge of the bath.”

Noun

A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash.

“We added a slosh of white wine to the sauce.”

Noun

A sloshing sound or motion.

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: March 22, 2022 (#276).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 22, 2022 (#276).

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

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How SLOSH performs as a guess

SLOSH is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 72.5% of games, misses completely in 27.5%, and leaves about 265 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,386 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

S___H S in the 1st position and H in the 5th position S__S_ S in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _L__H L in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in SLOSH.

First-turn measures

All four describe SLOSH used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.20 Entropy (bits)
265 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 33% of evaluated openers
1.75 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SLOSH 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#10,386 Rank among openers
Opening with SLOSH solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.77 average. It ranks #10,386 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
797
4 guesses
1,196
5 guesses
294
6 guesses
24
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
LOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
39%
All gray
28%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SLOSH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SLOSH can come back 76 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

653 answers
244 answers
240 answers
167 answers
115 answers
102 answers
93 answers
73 answers
59 answers
53 answers
51 answers
44 answers
41 answers
34 answers
33 answers
24 answers
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22 answers
20 answers
16 answers
16 answers
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14 answers
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12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1L1O1S1H4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

TIARE RAILE TONER PEART CRANE BRANE

Strategy after playing SLOSH

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SLOSH.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SLOSH:

28% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
10% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
10% chance
Suggested:
TONER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.5% →
TIARE 6.17 bits
10.3% →
RAILE 5.38 bits
10.1% →
TONER 5.40 bits
7.0% →
PEART 5.44 bits
4.8% →
CRANE 4.83 bits
4.3% →
TIARE 5.69 bits
3.9% →
BRANE 4.56 bits
3.1% →
LOYAL 4.13 bits
2.5% →
WAITE 4.41 bits
2.2% →
CARET 4.87 bits

Research on SLOSH

Game-tree analysis and word research for SLOSH, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with SLOSH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,651 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.94 guesses at best and is rank #5,136 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it SLAHSH.

Rhymes with AWASH

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SLOSH is a kind of go or pad.

Synonyms splash

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SLOSH sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).