5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet F tier opener

SWASH

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /swɒʃ//swɑʃ/

Noun

The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.

Noun

A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.

Verb

To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).

Verb

To dash or flow noisily; to splash.

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 SWASH performs as a guess

SWASH 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 67.5% of games, misses completely in 32.5%, and leaves about 365 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,613 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___H S in the 1st position and H in the 5th position S__S_ S in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _W__H W in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

RIONE TALER TRINE TRICE TRUCE DROLE
Words starting with S Words ending with H

First-turn measures

3.80 Entropy (bits)
365 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
84.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 15% of evaluated openers
2.15 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SWASH 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
100.0% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#12,613 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SWASH ranks #12,613 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
735
4 guesses
1,188
5 guesses
367
6 guesses
23
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)
68%
Green tile
36%
All gray
32%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
S W A S H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SWASH in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

74 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

767
432
173
144
90
74
67
55
52
51
46
33
30
24
20
18
18
17
17
17
15
15
13
11
10
10
9
8
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SWASH:

33% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
18% chance
Suggested:
TALER
7% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.5% →
RIONE 5.95 bits
18.3% →
TALER 5.45 bits
7.3% →
TRINE 5.13 bits
6.1% →
TRICE 4.83 bits
3.8% →
TRICE 5.31 bits
3.1% →
TRUCE 4.63 bits
2.8% →
DROLE 5.02 bits
2.3% →
RUOTE 4.81 bits
2.2% →
LEANT 3.87 bits
2.2% →
RUOTE 4.63 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1W4A1S1H4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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