5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

SHONE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ʃɒn//ʃoʊn//ʃɑn/

Verb

simple past and past participle of shine

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 SHONE performs as a guess

SHONE 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 87.3% of games, misses completely in 12.7%, and leaves about 117 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,031 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__N_ S in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _H__E H in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL ALTER GRATE MOLAR CLARY ARIEL
Words starting with S Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.25 Entropy (bits)
117 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 94% of evaluated openers
0.69 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SHONE 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#2,031 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SHONE ranks #2,031 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
85
3 guesses
927
4 guesses
1,152
5 guesses
173
6 guesses
16
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
2 vowels
Common:
ENOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
43%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
S H O N E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SHONE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

117 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

299
279
163
147
92
77
72
69
68
66
59
58
47
42
39
34
33
33
32
29
28
26
26
25
25
24
23
19
18
18

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SHONE:

13% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
12% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
7% chance
Suggested:
GRATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.7% →
TRAIL 5.93 bits
11.8% →
ALTER 5.34 bits
6.9% →
GRATE 4.47 bits
6.2% →
MOLAR 5.21 bits
3.9% →
CLARY 4.83 bits
3.3% →
ARIEL 4.63 bits
3.1% →
DROOL 4.21 bits
2.9% →
LAIRY 4.54 bits
2.9% →
TIPSY 4.80 bits
2.8% →
GRANT 4.26 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1H4O1N1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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