5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

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).

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 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 72.6% of games, misses completely in 27.4%, and leaves about 262 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,386 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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___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

Try next

TIARE RAILE TONER PEART CRANE BRANE
Words starting with S Words ending with H

First-turn measures

4.20 Entropy (bits)
262 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 opener: v5 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
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#10,386 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SLOSH 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 (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
LOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
39%
All gray
27%

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

75 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

647
242
239
167
114
102
92
73
59
53
49
44
41
34
33
24
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16
16
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SLOSH:

27% 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.

27.4% →
TIARE 6.17 bits
10.3% →
RAILE 5.39 bits
10.1% →
TONER 5.40 bits
7.1% →
PEART 5.44 bits
4.8% →
CRANE 4.83 bits
4.3% →
TIARE 5.70 bits
3.9% →
BRANE 4.56 bits
3.1% →
LOYAL 4.13 bits
2.5% →
WAITE 4.42 bits
2.2% →
CARET 4.87 bits

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.