SANDY
Yes, SANDY has been the Wordle answer on October 27, 2024 (Wordle #1226) and April 4, 2026 (Wordle #1750).
As an opener, it rules out about 93.1% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈsændi/
- Adjective
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Covered with sand.
- Adjective
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Sprinkled with sand.
- Noun
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A sandwich
- Noun
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Ellipsis of pecan sandy.
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
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used 2 timesPast Wordle answer: October 27, 2024 (#1226); April 4, 2026 (#1750).
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See what the public sample says →How SANDY performs as a guess
SANDY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 80.8% of games, misses completely in 19.2%, and leaves about 165 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,946 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe SANDY 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How SANDY 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches SANDY in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
SANDY can come back 102 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for SANDY; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing SANDY
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SANDY.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing SANDY:
Research on SANDY
Game-tree analysis and word research for SANDY, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with SANDY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,878 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with SANDY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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). They do not use the site's working answer pool.
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it SANDEE.
Related meanings
Synonyms blonde BLOND
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- SANDY sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 15 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with touch (3.7 of 5).
In a sentence
The river bed is sandy.
The sandy beach was white.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).