5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

SWARM

SWARM is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 92.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /swɔɹm//swɔːm/

Noun

A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.

Noun

A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.

“a swarm of meteorites”

Verb

To move as a swarm.

Verb

To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 SWARM performs as a guess

SWARM is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 80.4% of games, misses completely in 19.6%, and leaves about 188 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,084 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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___M S in the 1st position and M in the 5th position S__R_ S in the 1st position and R in the 4th position

Try next

TOILE TALER COLEY TOUSE CLONE DRICE
Words starting with S Words ending with M

First-turn measures

4.58 Entropy (bits)
188 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 57% of evaluated openers
1.37 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SWARM 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#6,084 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SWARM ranks #6,084 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
867
4 guesses
1,204
5 guesses
219
6 guesses
10
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
1 vowels
Common:
ARS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
31%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S W I N G
S W A R M

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SWARM in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

91 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

463
289
255
147
120
85
85
78
51
51
50
49
48
42
38
35
31
31
26
25
24
22
21
16
16
14
14
13
13
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SWARM:

20% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
12% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
11% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.6% →
TOILE 6.08 bits
12.3% →
TOILE 5.22 bits
10.8% →
TOILE 5.28 bits
6.2% →
TOILE 5.17 bits
5.1% →
TALER 4.72 bits
3.6% →
COLEY 4.89 bits
3.6% →
TOUSE 5.03 bits
3.3% →
CLONE 4.74 bits
2.2% →
DRICE 3.91 bits
2.2% →
WIDEN 4.69 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1W4A1R1M3
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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