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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

SMELT

Yes, SMELT was the Wordle answer on March 14, 2022 (Wordle #268).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /smɛlt/

Noun

Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe.

Verb

simple past and past participle of smell

Noun

Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves heating and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal.

Verb

To produce metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves heating and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal.

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 14, 2022 (#268).

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

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How SMELT performs as a guess

SMELT 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 86.3% of games, misses completely in 13.7%, and leaves about 129 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,100 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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___T S in the 1st position and T in the 5th position S__L_ S in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _M__T M in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

ROANY RAINE CORAL TITAN LEARE TARTE
Words starting with S Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.10 Entropy (bits)
129 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 88% of evaluated openers
0.84 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SMELT 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#1,100 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SMELT ranks #1,100 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
80
3 guesses
959
4 guesses
1,143
5 guesses
156
6 guesses
14
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ELST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
34%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L E E T
S M E L T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SMELT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

112 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

324
306
142
122
121
92
90
83
71
61
57
56
51
45
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38
29
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25
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17

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SMELT:

14% chance
Suggested:
ROANY
13% chance
Suggested:
RAINE
6% chance
Suggested:
CORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.7% →
ROANY 5.81 bits
13.0% →
RAINE 5.25 bits
6.0% →
CORAL 5.03 bits
5.2% →
TITAN 4.89 bits
5.1% →
LEARE 4.64 bits
3.9% →
TARTE 4.80 bits
3.8% →
COMMA 5.09 bits
3.5% →
ROANY 4.82 bits
3.0% →
RAINY 4.44 bits
2.6% →
CARNE 4.44 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1M3E1L1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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