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SAINT

Yes, SAINT was the Wordle answer on September 22, 2022 (Wordle #460).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /seɪnt//sən(t)/[sn̩(t)]

Noun

A deceased person whom a church or another religious group has officially recognised as especially holy or godly; one eminent for piety and virtue.

“The Roman Catholic Church proclaimed Kateri Tekakwitha a saint in 2012.”

Noun

One of the blessed in heaven.

Verb

Synonym of canonize: to honor, formally name, or revere as a saint.

“Many Catholics wished to see Pope John Paul II sainted immediately after his death.”

Alternative forms: St, St.

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: September 22, 2022 (#460).

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

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How SAINT performs as a guess

SAINT 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 85.2% of games, misses completely in 14.8%, and leaves about 106 possible answers on average.

In the current bounded six-turn policy, it ranks #20 of 182 evaluated openers; exact misses rank first, then average guesses among wins.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #34 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.54 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.

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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__N_ S in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _A__T A in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

DROLE COLEY ROUTE ROULE PLORE HORSE
Words starting with S Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.51 Entropy (bits)
106 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 99% of evaluated openers
0.44 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SAINT 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.

3.54 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#34 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SAINT ranks #34 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
76
3 guesses
1,098
4 guesses
1,018
5 guesses
145
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
2 vowels
Common:
AINST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
47%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C L I N T
S P O O F
S A I N T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SAINT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

129 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

350
204
109
104
97
90
76
72
68
53
53
44
41
39
38
38
38
36
36
35
31
28
27
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25
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18
18

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SAINT:

15% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
9% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
5% chance
Suggested:
COLEY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.8% →
DROLE 5.94 bits
8.7% →
DROLE 5.43 bits
4.6% →
COLEY 4.61 bits
4.4% →
DROLE 5.05 bits
4.1% →
ROUTE 5.26 bits
3.8% →
ROULE 4.80 bits
3.2% →
PLORE 4.84 bits
3.1% →
DROLE 4.61 bits
2.9% →
HORSE 4.83 bits
2.2% →
CONEY 4.14 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1A1I1N1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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