Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

SIENS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Obsolete spelling of scion.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use SIENS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How SIENS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SIENS 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 81.7% of games, misses completely in 18.3%, and leaves about 195 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,496 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe SIENS used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.54 Entropy (bits)
195 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SIENS 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#10,496 Rank among openers
Opening with SIENS left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.77 average. It ranks #10,496 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
794
4 guesses
1,205
5 guesses
281
6 guesses
30

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EINS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
36%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

SIENS can come back 76 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

436 answers
418 answers
139 answers
116 answers
92 answers
91 answers
89 answers
81 answers
81 answers
70 answers
66 answers
66 answers
60 answers
45 answers
39 answers
36 answers
36 answers
34 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1I1E1N1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing SIENS

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SIENS.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SIENS:

18% chance
Suggested:
CORAL
18% chance
Suggested:
REATE
6% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.3% →
CORAL 5.88 bits
17.5% →
REATE 5.56 bits
5.8% →
TRAIL 5.29 bits
4.9% →
CLARY 4.75 bits
3.9% →
CANON 4.87 bits
3.8% →
LAREE 4.63 bits
3.7% →
TRIDE 4.58 bits
3.4% →
TRACE 4.69 bits
3.4% →
DIRTY 3.93 bits
2.9% →
ROAST 4.18 bits

Research on SIENS

Game-tree analysis and word research for SIENS, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with SIENS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,263 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with SIENS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).