5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

SWALE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /sweɪl/

Noun

A low tract of moist or marshy land.

Noun

A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.

Verb

Alternative form of sweal (“melt and waste away, or singe”).

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 SWALE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SWALE 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 86.5% of games, misses completely in 13.5%, and leaves about 115 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,109 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__L_ S in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _W__E W in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

COUNT TRIED RAINY GRICE CLOUT SNOUT
Words starting with S Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.27 Entropy (bits)
115 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 94% of evaluated openers
0.68 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SWALE 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#4,109 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SWALE ranks #4,109 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
89
3 guesses
862
4 guesses
1,188
5 guesses
200
6 guesses
14
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AELS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
42%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

118 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

319
226
196
129
94
91
81
71
68
67
59
49
45
39
35
35
34
33
33
32
29
29
26
25
24
22
22
21
20
19

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SWALE:

14% chance
Suggested:
COUNT
10% chance
Suggested:
TRIED
8% chance
Suggested:
RAINY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.5% →
COUNT 5.86 bits
9.6% →
TRIED 5.23 bits
8.3% →
RAINY 4.90 bits
5.5% →
GRICE 4.35 bits
4.0% →
CLOUT 4.59 bits
3.9% →
SNOUT 4.51 bits
3.4% →
CATER 4.35 bits
3.0% →
TONAL 4.51 bits
2.9% →
LEPER 4.34 bits
2.8% →
MOIST 4.85 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1W4A1L1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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