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Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

SHIED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ʃaɪd/

Verb

simple past and past participle of shy

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 SHIED performs as a guess

SHIED is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 84.0% of games, misses completely in 16.0%, and leaves about 139 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,637 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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___D S in the 1st position and D in the 5th position S__E_ S in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _H__D H in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

TALON LEARE LATER TRAIN ROANY MOUTH
Words starting with S Words ending with D

First-turn measures

5.04 Entropy (bits)
139 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SHIED 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#3,637 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHIED ranks #3,637 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
903
4 guesses
1,184
5 guesses
183
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
42%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SHIED in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

105 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

377
281
157
135
119
83
77
71
66
65
64
64
42
42
34
31
31
29
27
26
25
24
24
23
22
20
19
19
19
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHIED:

16% chance
Suggested:
TALON
12% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
7% chance
Suggested:
LATER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.0% →
TALON 5.87 bits
11.9% →
LEARE 5.47 bits
6.7% →
LATER 4.45 bits
5.7% →
TRAIN 5.07 bits
5.0% →
ROANY 4.71 bits
3.5% →
MOUTH 4.80 bits
3.3% →
CLARY 4.45 bits
3.0% →
ROAST 4.83 bits
2.8% →
DEARE 4.80 bits
2.8% →
PARTE 4.62 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4I1E1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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