5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

STETS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of stet

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 STETS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts STETS 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 72.6% of games, misses completely in 27.4%, and leaves about 337 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,690 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.88 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

CAROL RAILE TALON COALY TALER CREED
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.75 Entropy (bits)
337 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 13% of evaluated openers
2.20 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How STETS 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.

3.88 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#13,690 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, STETS ranks #13,690 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
29
3 guesses
640
4 guesses
1,298
5 guesses
349
6 guesses
32
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:
EST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
28%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

58 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

646
528
195
135
116
77
75
64
60
43
36
33
31
29
28
28
17
16
16
12
12
12
11
11
10
10
9
8
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing STETS:

27% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
22% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
8% chance
Suggested:
TALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.4% →
CAROL 5.90 bits
22.4% →
RAILE 5.39 bits
8.3% →
TALON 5.05 bits
5.7% →
COALY 4.83 bits
4.9% →
TALER 4.66 bits
3.3% →
CREED 4.47 bits
3.2% →
PAIRE 4.31 bits
2.7% →
ROULE 4.63 bits
2.5% →
BRASH 4.50 bits
1.8% →
ROANY 4.44 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1T1E1T1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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