5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SLUBS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of slub

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of slub

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 SLUBS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SLUBS 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 64.2% of games, misses completely in 35.8%, and leaves about 382 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,578 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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__B_ S in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _L__S L in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TIARE RAILE PARTE RONTE ROATE IRATE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.74 Entropy (bits)
382 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 13% of evaluated openers
2.21 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SLUBS 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#11,578 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SLUBS ranks #11,578 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
757
4 guesses
1,206
5 guesses
325
6 guesses
21
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:
LSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
30%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

70 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

844
266
219
136
118
108
100
68
55
42
32
25
25
25
24
24
21
16
15
14
13
13
12
12
9
8
8
8
7
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SLUBS:

36% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
11% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
PARTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.8% →
TIARE 6.17 bits
11.3% →
RAILE 5.33 bits
9.3% →
PARTE 5.41 bits
5.8% →
RONTE 4.91 bits
5.0% →
ROATE 5.62 bits
4.6% →
IRATE 5.54 bits
4.2% →
CRANE 5.05 bits
2.9% →
TRONE 4.80 bits
2.3% →
THALE 4.53 bits
1.8% →
ARIEL 4.02 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1L1U1B3S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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