5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

SWELT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /swɛlt/

Verb

To die.

Verb

To succumb or be overcome with emotion, heat, etc.; to faint or swelter

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 SWELT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SWELT 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 84.2% of games, misses completely in 15.8%, and leaves about 149 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,847 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___T S in the 1st position and T in the 5th position S__L_ S in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _W__T W in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

MANOR RAINE CLAIM NORTH LEARE TIARE
Words starting with S Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.96 Entropy (bits)
149 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 81% of evaluated openers
0.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SWELT 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
0.70 Volatility
#3,847 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SWELT ranks #3,847 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
77
3 guesses
887
4 guesses
1,189
5 guesses
183
6 guesses
18
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:
ELST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
34%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

112 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

372
326
155
129
128
95
83
73
68
58
56
52
48
41
41
33
30
28
28
24
23
23
21
19
19
18
18
17
17
17

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SWELT:

16% chance
Suggested:
MANOR
14% chance
Suggested:
RAINE
7% chance
Suggested:
CLAIM

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.8% →
MANOR 5.75 bits
13.8% →
RAINE 5.29 bits
6.6% →
CLAIM 4.95 bits
5.5% →
NORTH 4.98 bits
5.4% →
LEARE 4.68 bits
4.0% →
TIARE 4.68 bits
3.5% →
ROANY 4.75 bits
3.1% →
RIONE 4.47 bits
2.9% →
AMISS 4.74 bits
2.5% →
PAIRE 4.40 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1W4E1L1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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