5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

STANS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of stan

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of stan

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 STANS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts STANS 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 77.7% of games, misses completely in 22.3%, and leaves about 205 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,836 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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__N_ S in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _T__S T in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

DROLE CARLE TRITE LINER DRICE PLORE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.45 Entropy (bits)
205 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.3% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How STANS 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#7,836 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, STANS ranks #7,836 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
856
4 guesses
1,210
5 guesses
224
6 guesses
23

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ANST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
32%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

75 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

526
263
219
151
112
111
110
85
69
64
46
41
38
36
33
29
28
26
26
20
20
20
18
15
15
15
13
13
12
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STANS:

22% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
11% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRITE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.3% →
DROLE 6.07 bits
11.1% →
CARLE 5.42 bits
9.3% →
TRITE 5.48 bits
6.4% →
LINER 5.03 bits
4.7% →
CARLE 4.66 bits
4.7% →
DRICE 4.91 bits
4.7% →
PLORE 5.11 bits
3.6% →
CARLE 4.57 bits
2.9% →
GOIER 4.65 bits
2.7% →
COURE 4.82 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1A1N1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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