Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

SUITS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.5% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /s(j)uːts/

Noun

plural of suit

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of suit

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 SUITS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SUITS 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 70.6% of games, misses completely in 29.4%, and leaves about 273 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,006 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe SUITS used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.28 Entropy (bits)
273 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 37% of evaluated openers
1.67 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SUITS 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.75% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#9,006 Rank among openers
Opening with SUITS left 6 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.74 average. It ranks #9,006 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
831
4 guesses
1,192
5 guesses
253
6 guesses
28
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ISTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
37%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

SUITS can come back 80 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

699 answers
202 answers
186 answers
140 answers
126 answers
107 answers
93 answers
76 answers
63 answers
62 answers
52 answers
50 answers
38 answers
34 answers
32 answers
29 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1U1I1T1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing SUITS

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SUITS.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SUITS:

29% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
9% chance
Suggested:
LINER
8% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.4%
CARLE 6.19 bits
8.5%
LINER 5.30 bits
7.8%
TALER 5.38 bits
5.9%
PARLE 5.33 bits
5.3%
CRANE 5.03 bits
4.5%
CLONE 5.12 bits
3.9%
MARLE 4.48 bits
3.2%
TITHE 4.27 bits
2.7%
PLORE 4.93 bits
2.6%
PARLE 4.58 bits

Research on SUITS

Game-tree analysis and word research for SUITS, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with SUITS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,668 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with SUITS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.74, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it SOOTS.

Rhymes with ROOTS BOOTS TOOTS HOOTS MUTES

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SUITS is a kind of garment or proceedings.

Synonyms case become CAUSE fit lawsuit accommodate

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SUITS sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 18 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.5 of 5).

In a sentence

Just do what suits you.
© tatoeba.org contributor anzart (CC BY 2.0 FR)
It suits you so well!
© tatoeba.org contributor EugeneGS (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).