5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SIGNS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /saɪnz/

Noun

plural of sign

“The signs beside the road warned of ice.”

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of sign

“She signs her name slowly, but clearly.”

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 SIGNS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SIGNS 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 66.1% of games, misses completely in 33.9%, and leaves about 342 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,669 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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__N_ S in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE CRATE PARTE MORAE PRATE ALURE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.92 Entropy (bits)
342 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 19% of evaluated openers
2.03 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SIGNS 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#9,669 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SIGNS ranks #9,669 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
29
3 guesses
825
4 guesses
1,217
5 guesses
256
6 guesses
25
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
1 vowels
Common:
INS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
33%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

68 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

799
208
204
164
131
100
100
73
55
51
33
31
30
26
25
23
20
20
19
18
16
15
14
14
11
10
10
10
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SIGNS:

34% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
9% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
9% chance
Suggested:
PARTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.9% →
ROATE 6.13 bits
8.8% →
CRATE 5.57 bits
8.7% →
PARTE 5.47 bits
7.0% →
MORAE 5.16 bits
5.6% →
PRATE 5.51 bits
4.2% →
ALURE 5.33 bits
4.2% →
CADET 4.49 bits
3.1% →
TRADE 4.84 bits
2.3% →
CADET 4.52 bits
2.2% →
PALET 4.25 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1I1G2N1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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