5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

SOFTA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A religious student, especially in Turkey

Noun

A fanatic adherent, blind follower

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 SOFTA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SOFTA 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 83.5% of games, misses completely in 16.5%, and leaves about 159 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,382 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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___A S in the 1st position and A in the 5th position S__T_ S in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _O__A O in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

LINER CARLE CRINE DROLE THEIR CLINE
Words starting with S Words ending with A

First-turn measures

4.82 Entropy (bits)
159 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 72% of evaluated openers
1.13 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SOFTA 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#3,382 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SOFTA ranks #3,382 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
925
4 guesses
1,167
5 guesses
188
6 guesses
10
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:
AOST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
35%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

97 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

390
334
137
131
128
112
109
73
65
59
57
53
39
38
38
35
34
32
30
28
27
26
26
24
19
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12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SOFTA:

17% chance
Suggested:
LINER
14% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
6% chance
Suggested:
CRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.5% →
LINER 5.92 bits
14.2% →
CARLE 5.52 bits
5.8% →
CRINE 5.34 bits
5.6% →
DROLE 4.54 bits
5.4% →
THEIR 5.23 bits
4.7% →
CARLE 4.73 bits
4.6% →
CLINE 4.98 bits
3.1% →
PLACE 4.29 bits
2.8% →
BARON 4.68 bits
2.5% →
BLARE 4.25 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1O1F4T1A1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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