5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SWABS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of swab

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of swab

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 SWABS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SWABS 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 66.3% of games, misses completely in 33.7%, and leaves about 387 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,673 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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__B_ S in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _W__S W in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE TALER TRINE TRICE TUILE RUOTE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.54 Entropy (bits)
387 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 8% of evaluated openers
2.41 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SWABS 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#12,673 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SWABS ranks #12,673 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
30
3 guesses
708
4 guesses
1,255
5 guesses
347
6 guesses
12
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
1 vowels
Common:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
29%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

56 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

795
410
204
152
121
104
85
69
60
47
38
26
21
20
15
15
13
12
11
11
10
9
9
8
7
6
6
6
6
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SWABS:

34% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
17% chance
Suggested:
TALER
9% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.7% →
TOILE 5.97 bits
17.4% →
TALER 5.43 bits
8.7% →
TRINE 5.12 bits
6.4% →
TRICE 5.16 bits
5.1% →
TUILE 5.35 bits
4.4% →
RUOTE 5.46 bits
3.6% →
DRONE 5.23 bits
2.9% →
TRICE 3.76 bits
2.5% →
BLORE 4.82 bits
2.0% →
TALER 4.31 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1W4A1B3S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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