5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SAMBA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈsɑmbə/

Noun

A Brazilian ballroom dance or dance style.

Noun

A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade.

Verb

To dance the samba.

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 SAMBA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SAMBA 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 67.7% of games, misses completely in 32.3%, and leaves about 335 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,421 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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__B_ S in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _A__A A in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

RIONE ALERT TRINE TRICE RUOTE TOILE
Words starting with S Words ending with A

First-turn measures

3.84 Entropy (bits)
335 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 16% of evaluated openers
2.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SAMBA 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#10,421 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SAMBA ranks #10,421 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
765
4 guesses
1,250
5 guesses
277
6 guesses
18
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
2 vowels
Common:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
33%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

70 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

762
282
214
160
129
113
92
89
47
43
39
34
27
26
25
24
20
20
18
15
14
14
13
12
11
10
7
7
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SAMBA:

32% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
12% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
9% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.3% →
RIONE 5.96 bits
12.0% →
ALERT 5.48 bits
9.1% →
TRINE 5.13 bits
6.8% →
TRICE 4.87 bits
5.5% →
RUOTE 5.58 bits
4.8% →
TOILE 5.34 bits
3.9% →
LEANT 4.48 bits
3.8% →
ROUTE 5.15 bits
2.0% →
BREAD 4.71 bits
1.8% →
CHARE 4.39 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1A1M3B3A1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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