5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SOILS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of soil

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of soil

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 SOILS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SOILS 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 78.6% of games, misses completely in 21.4%, and leaves about 191 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,011 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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__L_ S in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRACE RANCE CADET CRANE PEART CRATE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.49 Entropy (bits)
191 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 51% of evaluated openers
1.46 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SOILS 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#7,011 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SOILS ranks #7,011 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
889
4 guesses
1,167
5 guesses
227
6 guesses
25
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
2 vowels
Common:
ILOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
41%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

82 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

504
198
190
178
153
142
114
89
62
60
58
56
38
38
36
31
27
24
24
22
22
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SOILS:

21% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
8% chance
Suggested:
RANCE
8% chance
Suggested:
CADET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.4% →
TRACE 6.26 bits
8.4% →
RANCE 5.28 bits
8.1% →
CADET 5.24 bits
7.5% →
CRANE 5.39 bits
6.5% →
RANCE 4.66 bits
6.0% →
PEART 5.39 bits
4.8% →
CRATE 5.10 bits
3.8% →
PRATE 5.27 bits
2.6% →
TIARE 4.46 bits
2.5% →
PARTE 4.42 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1O1I1L1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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