5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SODOM

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈsɒ.dəm//ˈsɑ.dəm/

Proper noun

A city in the Middle East which, according to the Bible and Islamic tradition (but not specifically named in the Qur'an), was destroyed by God (along with Gomorrah) for the sins of its inhabitants (especially the implied homosexuality of the men).

Noun

A city or place full of sin and vice.

Proper noun

Wadham College, Oxford.

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.

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___M S in the 1st position and M in the 5th position S__O_ S in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _O__M O in the 2nd position and M in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE LEANT ARIEL TARSE CRANE CARLE
Words starting with S Words ending with M

First-turn measures

3.86 Entropy (bits)
360 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.7% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SODOM 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#9,855 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SODOM ranks #9,855 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
775
4 guesses
1,259
5 guesses
253
6 guesses
21

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
35%
All gray
35%

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

822
232
168
162
140
128
123
53
44
44
31
29
27
27
24
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7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SODOM:

35% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
10% chance
Suggested:
LEANT
7% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.8% →
RAILE 6.18 bits
9.8% →
LEANT 5.35 bits
7.1% →
ARIEL 5.58 bits
6.9% →
TARSE 5.42 bits
5.9% →
CRANE 5.25 bits
5.4% →
RAILE 5.31 bits
5.2% →
CARLE 4.77 bits
2.2% →
TALER 4.72 bits
1.9% →
RAINE 4.50 bits
1.9% →
REACT 4.04 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1O1D2O1M3
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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