5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SENSU

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Preposition

in the sense of

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 SENSU performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SENSU 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 79.3% of games, misses completely in 20.7%, and leaves about 220 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,960 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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___U S in the 1st position and U in the 5th position S__S_ S in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _E__U E in the 2nd position and U in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL ORATE CURLY CLARY GRAIN STALK
Words starting with S Words ending with U

First-turn measures

4.27 Entropy (bits)
220 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 37% of evaluated openers
1.68 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SENSU 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#11,960 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SENSU ranks #11,960 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
692
4 guesses
1,312
5 guesses
274
6 guesses
28
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:
ENSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
36%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

68 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

489
395
163
149
138
122
98
94
75
60
47
47
37
33
31
25
25
24
23
21
19
19
18
17
16
14
14
13
12
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SENSU:

21% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
17% chance
Suggested:
ORATE
7% chance
Suggested:
CURLY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.7% →
CAROL 5.99 bits
16.8% →
ORATE 5.20 bits
6.9% →
CURLY 4.73 bits
6.3% →
CLARY 4.87 bits
5.9% →
GRAIN 5.21 bits
5.2% →
STALK 4.62 bits
4.2% →
PLATE 4.75 bits
4.0% →
ARIEL 4.65 bits
3.2% →
GRATE 4.31 bits
2.5% →
COALY 4.40 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1E1N1S1U1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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