5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SHENG

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈʃʌŋ/[ˈʃʰʌŋ]/ˈʃɛŋ/

Noun

A Chinese wind instrument, a free-reed mouth organ consisting of 13 or more bamboo pipes of various lengths, which are fixed at their bases in a wind chest made from a dried gourd (or, more recently, wood or chrome-plated brass).

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 SHENG performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SHENG 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 80.7% of games, misses completely in 19.3%, and leaves about 192 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,293 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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___G S in the 1st position and G in the 5th position S__N_ S in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _H__G H in the 2nd position and G in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL REATE LAIRY LINER ROAST ROACH
Words starting with S Words ending with G

First-turn measures

4.62 Entropy (bits)
192 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 60% of evaluated openers
1.33 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SHENG 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#6,293 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHENG ranks #6,293 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
853
4 guesses
1,238
5 guesses
191
6 guesses
18
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ENS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
30%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

83 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

454
396
124
105
97
93
84
81
69
64
63
61
60
44
32
31
27
26
24
24
24
22
21
21
19
17
16
15
15
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHENG:

19% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
17% chance
Suggested:
REATE
5% chance
Suggested:
LAIRY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.3% →
CAROL 5.96 bits
16.8% →
REATE 5.43 bits
5.3% →
LAIRY 4.73 bits
4.5% →
LAIRY 4.87 bits
4.1% →
LINER 4.53 bits
3.9% →
ROAST 5.02 bits
3.6% →
ROACH 4.62 bits
3.4% →
GRADE 4.60 bits
2.9% →
PARTE 4.64 bits
2.7% →
GRAIL 4.74 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4E1N1G2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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