5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SLUES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of slue

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 SLUES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SLUES 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 80.0% of games, misses completely in 20.0%, and leaves about 189 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,916 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__E_ S in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _L__S L in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIN TIARE TONER LOYAL RAINY BURNT
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.55 Entropy (bits)
189 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 55% of evaluated openers
1.40 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SLUES 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
99.9% Win rate
0.75 Volatility
#10,916 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SLUES ranks #10,916 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
770
4 guesses
1,191
5 guesses
303
6 guesses
32
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:
ELSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
40%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

472
322
171
147
115
106
98
76
68
66
55
53
53
46
41
38
37
29
25
21
18
17
16
16
15
13
12
11
11
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SLUES:

20% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
14% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
7% chance
Suggested:
TONER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.0% →
TRAIN 6.04 bits
13.7% →
TIARE 5.43 bits
7.3% →
TONER 4.32 bits
6.2% →
LOYAL 5.09 bits
4.9% →
RAINY 4.67 bits
4.5% →
BURNT 4.39 bits
4.2% →
LADLE 4.38 bits
3.2% →
PARTE 4.45 bits
2.9% →
FLANK 4.21 bits
2.8% →
ROAST 4.90 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1L1U1E1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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