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SINGE

Yes, SINGE was the Wordle answer on April 3, 2026 (Wordle #1749).

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /sɪnd͡ʒ/

Verb

To burn slightly.

Verb

To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it.

Noun

A burning of the surface; a slight burn.

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

Etymology

From Middle English sengen, from Old English senġan, sænċġan (“to singe, burn slightly, scorch, afflict”), from Proto-West Germanic *sangijan (“to burn, torch”), from Proto-Indo-European *senk- (“to burn”). Cognate with West Frisian singe, sinzje (“to singe”), Saterland Frisian soange (“to singe”), Dutch zengen (“to singe, scorch”), German Low German sengen (“to singe”), German sengen (“to singe, scorch”), Icelandic sangur (“singed, burnt, scorched”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

One syllable Say it SIHNJ.

Rhymes with BINGE HINGE TINGE MINGE WINGE

Use SINGE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.2% of possible answers.

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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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: April 3, 2026 (#1749).

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SINGE in Connections

1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How SINGE performs as a guess

SINGE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 84.0% of games, misses completely in 16.0%, and leaves about 139 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,728 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__G_ S in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _I__E I in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position SI_GE S in the 1st position, I in the 2nd position, G in the 4th position, and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SINGE 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.

5.11 Entropy (bits)
139 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SINGE 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#2,728 Rank among openers
Opening with SINGE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,728 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
85
3 guesses
901
4 guesses
1,173
5 guesses
177
6 guesses
16

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EINS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
42%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N G
S I N G E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SINGE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SINGE can come back 121 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

382 answers
296 answers
128 answers
125 answers
123 answers
88 answers
84 answers
68 answers
63 answers
49 answers
48 answers
45 answers
45 answers
42 answers
41 answers
41 answers
39 answers
39 answers
35 answers
34 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
24 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1I1N1G2E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

CAROL ALTER TRAIL PEART CLARY FRONT

Strategy after playing SINGE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SINGE:

16% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
12% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
5% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.0% →
CAROL 5.99 bits
12.4% →
ALTER 5.36 bits
5.4% →
TRAIL 5.32 bits
5.2% →
PEART 4.46 bits
5.2% →
CLARY 4.75 bits
3.7% →
FRONT 4.62 bits
3.5% →
TRASH 4.97 bits
2.9% →
RATEL 4.34 bits
2.6% →
SALTY 3.85 bits
2.1% →
TRAIN 4.43 bits

Research on SINGE

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

Optimal play

Opening with SINGE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,773 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 SINGE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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
SINGE 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.4 of 5).

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).