5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

SWEET

Yes, SWEET was the Wordle answer on March 8, 2022 (Wordle #262).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /swiːt//swit/

Adjective

Tasting of sugars.

“a sweet apple”

Adjective

Retaining a portion of sugar.

“Sweet wines are better dessert wines.”

Interjection

Used as a positive response to good news or information.

“They're making a sequel? Ah, sweet!”

Adverb

In a pleasant manner.

Alternative forms: sweete

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: March 8, 2022 (#262).

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

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How SWEET performs as a guess

SWEET 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 75.3% of games, misses completely in 24.7%, and leaves about 224 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,171 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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___T S in the 1st position and T in the 5th position S__E_ S in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _W__T W in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL RAILE TITAN RAINY CLARY LAIRY
Words starting with S Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.53 Entropy (bits)
224 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 54% of evaluated openers
1.42 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SWEET 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#9,171 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SWEET ranks #9,171 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
768
4 guesses
1,253
5 guesses
245
6 guesses
24
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
2 vowels
Common:
EST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
40%
All gray
25%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L E E T
S H E E T
S W E E T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SWEET in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

98 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

583
290
156
139
128
98
92
79
59
49
47
46
35
31
30
27
26
24
24
21
20
19
17
17
17
15
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SWEET:

25% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
12% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
7% chance
Suggested:
TITAN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.7% →
CAROL 5.92 bits
12.3% →
RAILE 5.20 bits
6.6% →
TITAN 5.05 bits
5.9% →
RAINY 4.51 bits
5.4% →
CLARY 4.86 bits
4.2% →
LAIRY 4.38 bits
3.9% →
BRASS 4.75 bits
3.4% →
TARTE 4.71 bits
2.5% →
WORLD 4.77 bits
2.1% →
PLANE 3.90 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1W4E1E1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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