SINCE
Yes, SINCE was the Wordle answer on March 14, 2024 (Wordle #999).
As an opener, it rules out about 95.3% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /sɪn(t)s/
- Adverb
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From a specified time in the past.
“I met him last year, but haven't seen him since.”
- Preposition
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From: referring to a period of time ending in the present and defining it by the point in time at which it started, or the period in which its starting point occurred.
“I'd known her only since the previous year, so from/since the moment we got married we’ve quarrelled.”
- Conjunction
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From the time that.
“I have loved you since I first met you.”
- Conjunction
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Because.
“Since you didn't call, we left without you.”
Alternative forms: sence
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
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: March 14, 2024 (#999).
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See what the public sample says →How SINCE performs as a guess
SINCE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 86.4% of games, misses completely in 13.6%, and leaves about 111 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,119 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe SINCE 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How SINCE 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches SINCE in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
SINCE can come back 122 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for SINCE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing SINCE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SINCE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing SINCE:
Research on SINCE
Game-tree analysis and word research for SINCE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with SINCE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #488 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 SINCE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- SINCE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 562 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
In a sentence
Have you been there since?
Since you can, you should!
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS.