5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer A tier opener

SAICE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 96.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of sais.

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 SAICE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SAICE 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 90.9% of games, misses completely in 9.1%, and leaves about 78 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #789 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__C_ S in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

TRULY DETER ADORN PILOT TARDY ALERT
Words starting with S Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.69 Entropy (bits)
78 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.7% Avg ruled out
In the top 1% for first-turn entropy
0.26 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SAICE 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#789 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SAICE ranks #789 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
83
3 guesses
989
4 guesses
1,093
5 guesses
171
6 guesses
14
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
3 vowels
Common:
AEIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
91%
Green tile
51%
All gray
9%

Feedback distribution

124 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

215
200
137
104
94
93
85
72
64
60
56
48
45
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41
37
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SAICE:

9% chance
Suggested:
TRULY
8% chance
Suggested:
DETER
6% chance
Suggested:
ADORN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.1% →
TRULY 5.42 bits
8.5% →
DETER 5.42 bits
5.8% →
ADORN 5.05 bits
4.4% →
PILOT 4.65 bits
4.0% →
TARDY 3.94 bits
3.9% →
ALERT 4.67 bits
3.6% →
ROUGE 4.41 bits
3.1% →
SHUNT 4.36 bits
2.7% →
DINER 4.57 bits
2.5% →
GLINT 4.36 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1A1I1C3E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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