5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

SHEEN

SHEEN is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ʃiːn/

Noun

Splendor; radiance; shininess.

Noun

A thin layer of a substance (such as oil) spread on a solid or liquid surface.

“oil sheen”

Adjective

Beautiful, good-looking, attractive, fair; bright, radiant; shiny.

Adjective

Clear, pure, clean; noble, illustrious; (by extension) innocent, chaste.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 SHEEN performs as a guess

SHEEN is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 78.0% of games, misses completely in 22.0%, and leaves about 195 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,860 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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___N S in the 1st position and N in the 5th position S__E_ S in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _H__N H in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL TIARE GIANT RAILE LAIRY ROAST
Words starting with S Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.68 Entropy (bits)
195 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 64% of evaluated openers
1.27 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SHEEN 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#7,860 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHEEN ranks #7,860 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
805
4 guesses
1,228
5 guesses
235
6 guesses
19
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:
ENS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
39%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E N
S E M E N
S H E E N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SHEEN in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

100 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

518
281
174
138
128
103
101
65
51
50
48
43
41
35
34
33
26
26
25
24
24
23
18
16
16
15
14
12
11
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHEEN:

22% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
12% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
7% chance
Suggested:
GIANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.0% →
CAROL 5.88 bits
11.9% →
TIARE 5.30 bits
7.4% →
GIANT 5.08 bits
5.9% →
RAILE 4.02 bits
5.4% →
LAIRY 4.75 bits
4.4% →
ROAST 5.03 bits
4.3% →
TORCH 4.93 bits
2.8% →
RAILE 4.36 bits
2.2% →
BRAIN 4.33 bits
2.1% →
PAUSE 4.39 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4E1E1N1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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