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SWATH

Yes, SWATH was the Wordle answer on February 7, 2025 (Wordle #1329).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /swɒθ//swɑθ//swɔθ/

Noun

The track cut out by a scythe in mowing.

Noun

A broad sweep or expanse, such as of land or of people.

“A large swath of the population is opposed to this government policy.”

Alternative forms: swathe

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: February 7, 2025 (#1329).

See the full page for that puzzle: February 7, 2025 (#1329).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How SWATH performs as a guess

SWATH is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 75.6% of games, misses completely in 24.4%, and leaves about 222 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,058 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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__T_ S in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _W__H W in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in SWATH.

First-turn measures

All four describe SWATH 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.

4.63 Entropy (bits)
222 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 61% of evaluated openers
1.31 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SWATH 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% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#4,058 Rank among openers
Opening with SWATH solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #4,058 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
930
4 guesses
1,135
5 guesses
217
6 guesses
11
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
34%
All gray
24%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S W A T H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SWATH in 2 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SWATH can come back 108 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

580 answers
317 answers
159 answers
115 answers
105 answers
99 answers
82 answers
62 answers
55 answers
53 answers
38 answers
37 answers
36 answers
34 answers
34 answers
33 answers
30 answers
29 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
20 answers
17 answers
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16 answers
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14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1W4A1T1H4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

RIONE CARLE ROUET CLINE DRICE TALER

Strategy after playing SWATH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SWATH:

24% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
13% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
7% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.4% →
RIONE 5.98 bits
13.4% →
CARLE 5.37 bits
6.7% →
ROUET 5.53 bits
4.8% →
CLINE 5.19 bits
4.4% →
DRICE 4.69 bits
4.2% →
TALER 4.58 bits
3.5% →
RIONE 5.11 bits
2.6% →
DROLE 4.98 bits
2.3% →
PRONE 4.15 bits
2.2% →
NOIRE 5.06 bits

Research on SWATH

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

Optimal play

Opening with SWATH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,808 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 SWATH can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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 SWAHTH.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SWATH is a kind of space or course.

Synonyms belt

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SWATH sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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).