5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SINUS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪ.nəs/

Noun

A pouch or cavity in a bone or other tissue, especially one in the bones of the face or skull connecting with the nasal cavities (the paranasal sinus).

Noun

An irregular venous or lymphatic cavity, reservoir, or dilated vessel.

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 SINUS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SINUS 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 69.7% of games, misses completely in 30.3%, and leaves about 289 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,633 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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__U_ S in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CARLE TRACE ROULE PLATE LEARN LATER
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.06 Entropy (bits)
289 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 26% of evaluated openers
1.89 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SINUS 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#10,633 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SINUS ranks #10,633 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
780
4 guesses
1,231
5 guesses
271
6 guesses
30
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
2 vowels
Common:
INSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
32%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

70 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

714
194
174
169
157
125
97
87
61
49
44
43
41
39
32
31
27
23
21
17
17
16
15
14
13
12
10
10
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SINUS:

30% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
8% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
7% chance
Suggested:
ROULE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.3% →
CARLE 6.18 bits
8.2% →
TRACE 5.58 bits
7.4% →
ROULE 4.89 bits
7.2% →
PLATE 5.50 bits
6.7% →
LEARN 5.15 bits
5.3% →
LATER 4.68 bits
4.1% →
TRACE 5.40 bits
3.7% →
GRATE 4.66 bits
2.6% →
CAGEY 4.57 bits
2.1% →
PALET 4.25 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1I1N1U1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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