5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet F tier opener

SLUSH

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /slʌʃ/

Noun

Half-melted snow or ice, generally located on the ground.

“As the skiing season drew to an end, there was nothing but slush left on the piste.”

Noun

Liquid mud or mire.

Verb

To smear with slushy liquid or grease.

Verb

To slosh or splash; to move as, or through, a slushy or liquid substance.

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 SLUSH performs as a guess

SLUSH is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 67.1% of games, misses completely in 32.9%, and leaves about 332 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,957 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___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

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RAINE RAILE PARTE RONTE CRANE TIARE
Words starting with S Words ending with H

First-turn measures

3.99 Entropy (bits)
332 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.9% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SLUSH 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
0.74 Volatility
#10,957 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SLUSH ranks #10,957 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
805
4 guesses
1,164
5 guesses
319
6 guesses
26

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
LSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
37%
All gray
33%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
S L U N G
S L U S H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SLUSH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

76 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

777
268
176
148
124
118
70
64
53
47
45
41
40
24
24
23
22
22
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18
14
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9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SLUSH:

33% chance
Suggested:
RAINE
11% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
7% chance
Suggested:
PARTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.9% →
RAINE 6.09 bits
11.4% →
RAILE 5.32 bits
7.5% →
PARTE 5.46 bits
6.3% →
RONTE 5.01 bits
5.3% →
CRANE 5.00 bits
5.0% →
TIARE 5.73 bits
3.0% →
IRATE 4.68 bits
2.7% →
TROPE 4.95 bits
2.2% →
TRODE 4.76 bits
2.0% →
TOILE 4.45 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1L1U1S1H4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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