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

SINES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /saɪnz/

Noun

plural of sine

Noun

pair of sixes of dice

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 SINES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SINES 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 176 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,255 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in SINES.

First-turn measures

All four describe SINES 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.

4.63 Entropy (bits)
176 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 61% of evaluated openers
1.32 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SINES 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
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,255 Rank among openers
Opening with SINES left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.77 average. It ranks #10,255 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
778
4 guesses
1,217
5 guesses
282
6 guesses
24
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EINS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
40%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

SINES can come back 83 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

435 answers
334 answers
162 answers
139 answers
116 answers
111 answers
80 answers
74 answers
72 answers
70 answers
65 answers
64 answers
61 answers
50 answers
38 answers
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34 answers
25 answers
24 answers
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17 answers
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13 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1I1N1E1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

CORAL LEARE OATER TRAIL CLARY GRANT

Strategy after playing SINES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SINES:

18% chance
Suggested:
CORAL
14% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
7% chance
Suggested:
OATER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.3% →
CORAL 5.89 bits
14.1% →
LEARE 5.51 bits
6.8% →
OATER 4.20 bits
5.9% →
TRAIL 5.29 bits
4.9% →
CLARY 4.75 bits
4.7% →
GRANT 4.94 bits
3.4% →
DIRTY 3.89 bits
3.1% →
TRADE 4.28 bits
3.0% →
ROANY 4.17 bits
2.9% →
PARTE 4.49 bits

Research on SINES

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

Optimal play

Opening with SINES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,579 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 SINES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77; proven optimal play reaches 3.76. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it SYNZ.

Rhymes with LINES SIGNS MINES WINES FINES

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SINES is a kind of quality or misconduct.

Synonyms boob blunder trespass

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SINES sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).