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

SINHS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of sinh

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 SINHS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SINHS 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 67.6% of games, misses completely in 32.4%, and leaves about 322 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,862 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

First-turn measures

All four describe SINHS 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.

3.95 Entropy (bits)
322 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
1.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SINHS 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#9,862 Rank among openers
Opening with SINHS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #9,862 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
813
4 guesses
1,224
5 guesses
259
6 guesses
25
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
INS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
30%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

SINHS can come back 67 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

768 answers
200 answers
190 answers
169 answers
153 answers
104 answers
102 answers
94 answers
65 answers
49 answers
45 answers
42 answers
34 answers
29 answers
25 answers
24 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1I1N1H4S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing SINHS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SINHS:

32% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
8% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
8% chance
Suggested:
ROATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.4%
ALTER 6.09 bits
8.4%
CRATE 5.48 bits
8.0%
ROATE 5.25 bits
7.1%
PARTE 5.53 bits
6.4%
CARTE 5.76 bits
4.4%
ROATE 5.38 bits
4.3%
DROLE 4.77 bits
4.0%
GRATE 4.69 bits
2.7%
CAGEY 4.60 bits
2.1%
ATONE 4.19 bits

Research on SINHS

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

Optimal play

Opening with SINHS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,605 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 SINHS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it SIHNZ. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.