5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SMUGS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 78.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of smug

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 SMUGS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SMUGS 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 56.8% of games, misses completely in 43.2%, and leaves about 508 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,612 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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__G_ S in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _M__S M in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ARIEL PLATE MORAE TRICE TARSE CLOTE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.38 Entropy (bits)
508 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
78.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 5% of evaluated openers
2.57 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SMUGS 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#12,612 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SMUGS ranks #12,612 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
707
4 guesses
1,269
5 guesses
320
6 guesses
24
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:
SU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
57%
Green tile
27%
All gray
43%

Feedback distribution

60 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1018
256
151
148
140
138
75
43
32
28
25
21
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SMUGS:

43% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
11% chance
Suggested:
PLATE
6% chance
Suggested:
MORAE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

43.2% →
ARIEL 6.07 bits
10.9% →
PLATE 5.32 bits
6.4% →
MORAE 5.50 bits
6.3% →
TRICE 5.05 bits
5.9% →
ARIEL 5.49 bits
5.9% →
TARSE 5.52 bits
3.2% →
CLOTE 4.99 bits
1.8% →
DAINE 4.54 bits
1.4% →
HUMOR 3.69 bits
1.2% →
LEANT 3.60 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1M3U1G2S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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