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Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

SANES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of SANE

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 SANES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SANES 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 84.9% of games, misses completely in 15.1%, and leaves about 141 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,860 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

S___S S in the 1st position and S in the 5th position S__E_ S in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position SA_ES S in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in SANES.

First-turn measures

All four describe SANES 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.

4.83 Entropy (bits)
141 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 73% of evaluated openers
1.12 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SANES 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#9,860 Rank among openers
Opening with SANES left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #9,860 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
758
4 guesses
1,245
5 guesses
261
6 guesses
25
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AENS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
43%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

SANES can come back 83 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

359 answers
244 answers
182 answers
156 answers
153 answers
113 answers
107 answers
95 answers
60 answers
56 answers
56 answers
51 answers
50 answers
44 answers
42 answers
41 answers
36 answers
35 answers
34 answers
31 answers
28 answers
27 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
19 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1A1N1E1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

MOULT TRIDE TRAIL DEALT OLDER TARDY

Strategy after playing SANES

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SANES.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SANES:

15% chance
Suggested:
MOULT
10% chance
Suggested:
TRIDE
8% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.1% →
MOULT 5.53 bits
10.3% →
TRIDE 5.21 bits
7.7% →
TRAIL 5.25 bits
6.6% →
DEALT 4.89 bits
6.4% →
OLDER 4.15 bits
4.8% →
TARDY 4.09 bits
4.5% →
IRONY 4.88 bits
4.0% →
SPILT 4.49 bits
2.5% →
RIONE 4.37 bits
2.4% →
GRAIN 4.38 bits

Research on SANES

Game-tree analysis and word research for SANES, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with SANES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,994 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 SANES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76; proven optimal play reaches 3.73. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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

One syllable Say it SAYNZ. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SANES sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with internal bodily sensation (3.3 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).