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

SMILE

Yes, SMILE has been the Wordle answer on September 27, 2023 (Wordle #830) and May 30, 2026 (Wordle #1806).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈsmaɪl//ˈsmaɪ.əl/

Noun

A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement, goodwill, or anxiety.

“She's got a perfect smile.”

Noun

Favour; propitious regard.

“the smile of the gods”

Verb

To have (a smile) on one's face.

“When you smile, the whole world smiles with you.”

Verb

To express by smiling.

“to smile consent, or a welcome”

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 2 times

Past Wordle answer: September 27, 2023 (#830); May 30, 2026 (#1806).

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

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How SMILE performs as a guess

SMILE 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 86.4% of games, misses completely in 13.6%, and leaves about 115 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,558 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__L_ S in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _M__E M in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

THORN TENOR ANTIC GRACE CAROL ROANY
Words starting with S Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.24 Entropy (bits)
115 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 93% of evaluated openers
0.71 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SMILE 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#1,558 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SMILE ranks #1,558 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
82
3 guesses
947
4 guesses
1,135
5 guesses
177
6 guesses
11
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
2 vowels
Common:
EILS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
41%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N G
S M I L E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SMILE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

115 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

321
243
134
131
120
108
102
82
65
62
46
43
43
42
42
40
37
36
35
32
25
25
23
22
21
21
21
20
20
17

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SMILE:

14% chance
Suggested:
THORN
10% chance
Suggested:
TENOR
6% chance
Suggested:
ANTIC

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.6% →
THORN 5.79 bits
10.3% →
TENOR 5.09 bits
5.7% →
ANTIC 5.10 bits
5.6% →
GRACE 4.56 bits
5.1% →
CAROL 4.95 bits
4.6% →
ROANY 4.76 bits
4.3% →
RENAL 4.58 bits
3.5% →
MAYOR 4.86 bits
2.8% →
TRASH 4.93 bits
2.6% →
TRONE 4.20 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1M3I1L1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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