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Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

SWIFT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /swɪft/

Adjective

Fast; quick; rapid.

“swift action”

Adjective

Capable of moving at high speeds.

Noun

A small plain-colored bird of the family Apodidae that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight.

Noun

Any of certain lizards of the genus Sceloporus.

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 SWIFT performs as a guess

SWIFT 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 69.6% of games, misses completely in 30.4%, and leaves about 283 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,669 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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__F_ S in the 1st position and F in the 4th position _W__T W in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

CARLE LINER TARTE PARLE HAOLE CRANE
Words starting with S Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.25 Entropy (bits)
283 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 36% of evaluated openers
1.70 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SWIFT 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#5,669 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SWIFT ranks #5,669 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
856
4 guesses
1,225
5 guesses
205
6 guesses
9
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:
IST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
34%
All gray
30%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S H U N T
S P I L T
S W I F T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SWIFT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

91 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

717
185
181
160
116
111
94
82
70
57
56
33
33
32
28
27
25
25
22
20
14
14
13
13
12
12
11
10
10
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SWIFT:

30% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
8% chance
Suggested:
LINER
8% chance
Suggested:
TARTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.4% →
CARLE 6.21 bits
7.8% →
LINER 5.21 bits
7.7% →
TARTE 5.55 bits
6.8% →
PARLE 5.40 bits
4.9% →
HAOLE 5.12 bits
4.7% →
CRANE 4.97 bits
4.0% →
CRANE 5.20 bits
3.5% →
DROLE 5.26 bits
3.0% →
LOURE 5.06 bits
2.4% →
ROAKE 4.35 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1W4I1F4T1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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