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

SWING

Yes, SWING was the Wordle answer on December 14, 2025 (Wordle #1639).

As an opener, it rules out about 87.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈswɪŋ/

Verb

To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.

“The plant swung in the breeze.”

Verb

To dance.

Noun

The act, or an instance, of swinging.

Noun

The manner in which something is swung.

“He worked tirelessly to improve his golf swing.”

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: December 14, 2025 (#1639).

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

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How SWING performs as a guess

SWING 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 69.4% of games, misses completely in 30.6%, and leaves about 291 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,783 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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___G S in the 1st position and G in the 5th position S__N_ S in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _W__G W in the 2nd position and G in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE PLATE LATER MORAE ALURE CRATE
Words starting with S Words ending with G

First-turn measures

4.16 Entropy (bits)
291 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
87.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 30% of evaluated openers
1.79 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SWING 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#6,783 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SWING ranks #6,783 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
865
4 guesses
1,205
5 guesses
224
6 guesses
13
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:
INS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
30%
All gray
31%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
S W I N G

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SWING in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

82 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

721
193
188
157
141
124
100
70
70
67
35
30
29
28
27
23
22
21
20
17
17
16
15
15
14
13
12
11
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SWING:

31% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
8% chance
Suggested:
PLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
LATER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.6% →
ROATE 6.14 bits
8.2% →
PLATE 5.45 bits
8.0% →
LATER 5.28 bits
6.7% →
ROATE 5.46 bits
6.0% →
MORAE 5.16 bits
5.3% →
ALURE 5.38 bits
4.2% →
CRATE 5.11 bits
3.0% →
TRADE 4.87 bits
3.0% →
CARET 4.47 bits
2.8% →
TRODE 5.02 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1W4I1N1G2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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