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

SENVY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈsɛnvi//ˈsɛmvi/

Noun

The mustard plant or its seed.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From Middle English senvey, senevey, from Old French senevé, senevei, from Vulgar Latin *sināpātium, from Latin sināpi (→ Old French senef), from Ancient Greek σίνᾱπι (sínāpi).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use SENVY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How SENVY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SENVY 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 82.0% of games, misses completely in 18.0%, and leaves about 196 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,574 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe SENVY 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.

4.46 Entropy (bits)
196 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SENVY 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#9,574 Rank among openers
Opening with SENVY left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It ranks #9,574 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
739
4 guesses
1,290
5 guesses
240
6 guesses
21

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ENS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
42%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

SENVY can come back 87 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

429 answers
389 answers
171 answers
159 answers
131 answers
111 answers
97 answers
93 answers
89 answers
78 answers
50 answers
49 answers
38 answers
34 answers
33 answers
31 answers
31 answers
26 answers
25 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
12 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1E1N1V4Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing SENVY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SENVY:

18% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
16% chance
Suggested:
TRADE
7% chance
Suggested:
DAILY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.0% →
TRAIL 6.05 bits
16.3% →
TRADE 5.40 bits
7.2% →
DAILY 4.15 bits
6.7% →
TRAIN 5.30 bits
5.5% →
SHALT 4.63 bits
4.7% →
RATEL 4.74 bits
4.1% →
PARTE 4.75 bits
3.9% →
TRASH 4.73 bits
3.7% →
ARIEL 4.62 bits
3.3% →
URATE 4.47 bits

Research on SENVY

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

Optimal play

Opening with SENVY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,623 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.93 guesses at best and is rank #4,954 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.76, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).