5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SANTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

plural of Sant

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 SANTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SANTS 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 77.7% of games, misses completely in 22.3%, and leaves about 195 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,600 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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___S S in the 1st position and S in the 5th position S__T_ S in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

DROLE ROUET GOIER COREY PLORE ALERT
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.55 Entropy (bits)
195 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 55% of evaluated openers
1.40 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SANTS 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#7,600 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SANTS ranks #7,600 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
860
4 guesses
1,216
5 guesses
214
6 guesses
24
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
1 vowels
Common:
ANST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
38%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

78 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

526
247
171
152
127
109
79
72
68
64
56
52
51
43
42
40
37
29
28
28
20
19
17
15
15
15
14
14
13
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SANTS:

22% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
10% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
7% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.3% →
DROLE 6.07 bits
10.5% →
DROLE 5.45 bits
7.3% →
ROUET 5.49 bits
6.4% →
GOIER 5.27 bits
5.4% →
COREY 4.55 bits
4.6% →
PLORE 5.13 bits
3.4% →
ALERT 4.84 bits
3.1% →
GRICE 4.70 bits
2.9% →
COURE 4.32 bits
2.7% →
COURE 4.82 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1A1N1T1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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