5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

STATS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /stæts/

Noun

Clipping of statistics (the subject).

“Stats is one of her favourite subjects at school.”

Noun

Clipping of statistics (data, figures).

“What do the stats tell us?”

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of stat

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 STATS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts STATS 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 68.4% of games, misses completely in 31.6%, and leaves about 341 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,162 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 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__T_ S in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _T__S T in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

RIONE CARLE ROUET CLINE DRICE PALET
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.80 Entropy (bits)
341 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 15% of evaluated openers
2.15 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How STATS 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#13,162 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, STATS ranks #13,162 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
26
3 guesses
710
4 guesses
1,233
5 guesses
351
6 guesses
30
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

3/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
32%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

61 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

746
363
200
155
142
106
76
50
48
37
36
35
34
32
27
21
16
16
14
13
12
12
11
11
10
10
9
8
7
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STATS:

32% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
15% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
8% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.6% →
RIONE 5.98 bits
15.4% →
CARLE 5.37 bits
8.5% →
ROUET 5.45 bits
6.6% →
CLINE 5.07 bits
6.0% →
DRICE 4.93 bits
4.5% →
PALET 4.49 bits
3.2% →
POIRE 4.91 bits
2.1% →
RIONE 4.42 bits
2.0% →
PRICE 3.64 bits
1.6% →
ROUSE 4.33 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1A1T1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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