5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SICES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of sice

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 SICES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SICES 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 81.1% of games, misses completely in 18.9%, and leaves about 187 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,632 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___S S in the 1st position and S in the 5th position S__E_ S in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position SI_ES S in the 1st position, I in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Try next

TALON LEARE SOLAR TRAIN CAROL ROANY
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.48 Entropy (bits)
187 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 50% of evaluated openers
1.47 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SICES 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#10,632 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SICES ranks #10,632 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
771
4 guesses
1,220
5 guesses
287
6 guesses
24
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:
EIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
38%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

75 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

446
325
180
161
127
125
86
85
76
73
63
60
54
44
32
31
28
26
22
20
19
19
18
15
15
15
14
12
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SICES:

19% chance
Suggested:
TALON
14% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
8% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.9% →
TALON 5.80 bits
13.8% →
LEARE 5.46 bits
7.6% →
SOLAR 4.08 bits
6.8% →
TRAIN 5.37 bits
5.4% →
CAROL 5.11 bits
5.3% →
ROANY 4.84 bits
3.6% →
SALTY 3.78 bits
3.6% →
TRINE 4.50 bits
3.2% →
CRATE 4.98 bits
3.1% →
PARTE 4.54 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1I1C3E1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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