5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SAIGA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Saiga tatarica, an antelope which inhabits a vast area between Kalmykia, Kazakhstan, southern Siberia.

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 SAIGA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SAIGA 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 76.8% of games, misses completely in 23.2%, and leaves about 217 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,448 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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___A S in the 1st position and A in the 5th position S__G_ S in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _A__A A in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

TONER TRACE TILDE CLOTE TRUCE ROUTE
Words starting with S Words ending with A

First-turn measures

4.37 Entropy (bits)
217 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 43% of evaluated openers
1.58 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SAIGA 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#9,448 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SAIGA ranks #9,448 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
795
4 guesses
1,216
5 guesses
269
6 guesses
20
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
3 vowels
Common:
AIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
40%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

83 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

548
264
200
158
152
115
103
97
58
51
44
43
43
33
29
28
27
26
24
21
19
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13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SAIGA:

23% chance
Suggested:
TONER
11% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
8% chance
Suggested:
TILDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.2% →
TONER 5.93 bits
11.2% →
TRACE 5.44 bits
8.5% →
TILDE 5.08 bits
6.7% →
CLOTE 4.80 bits
6.4% →
TONER 5.00 bits
4.9% →
TRUCE 5.02 bits
4.4% →
ROUTE 5.25 bits
4.1% →
THALE 4.38 bits
2.5% →
ROULE 5.04 bits
2.2% →
PALET 3.75 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1A1I1G2A1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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