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SWITS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 SWITS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SWITS 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 66.1% of games, misses completely in 33.9%, and leaves about 347 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,869 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___S S in the 1st position and S in the 5th position S__T_ S in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _W__S W in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CARLE CARET LINER PARLE CRANE DROLE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

All four describe SWITS 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.

3.87 Entropy (bits)
347 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 17% of evaluated openers
2.08 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SWITS 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#10,869 Rank among openers
Opening with SWITS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.78 average. It ranks #10,869 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
773
4 guesses
1,229
5 guesses
291
6 guesses
21
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
1 vowels
Common:
IST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
32%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

SWITS can come back 71 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

799 answers
237 answers
211 answers
158 answers
127 answers
89 answers
87 answers
83 answers
75 answers
66 answers
39 answers
35 answers
33 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SWITS:

34% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
10% chance
Suggested:
CARET
9% chance
Suggested:
LINER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.9% →
CARLE 6.19 bits
10.0% →
CARET 5.52 bits
8.9% →
LINER 5.29 bits
6.7% →
PARLE 5.40 bits
5.4% →
CRANE 5.07 bits
3.8% →
PARLE 5.15 bits
3.7% →
DROLE 5.24 bits
3.5% →
TITLE 4.30 bits
3.2% →
ALURE 4.38 bits
2.8% →
HAOLE 4.66 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1W4I1T1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

The science of SWITS

What game-tree analysis and word research measure about SWITS — each figure with what it means.

Optimal play

Opening with SWITS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.83 guesses — rank #12,000 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.98 guesses at best — rank #5,808 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78 — at or below the proven-optimal 3.83 only 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) — not the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable — say it SWIHTS. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.