5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SKENS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /skɛnz/

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of sken

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 SKENS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SKENS 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 74.8% of games, misses completely in 25.2%, and leaves about 303 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,134 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 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__N_ S in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _K__S K in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL RAILE TONIC LAIRY AINEE TRASH
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.90 Entropy (bits)
303 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 18% of evaluated openers
2.05 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SKENS 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#13,134 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SKENS ranks #13,134 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
24
3 guesses
686
4 guesses
1,289
5 guesses
332
6 guesses
23
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
1 vowels
Common:
ENS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
28%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

53 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

595
518
146
124
121
88
85
76
75
69
58
34
26
26
25
23
21
19
17
13
13
13
12
12
12
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10
10
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SKENS:

25% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
22% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
6% chance
Suggested:
TONIC

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.2% →
TRAIL 5.88 bits
22.0% →
RAILE 5.37 bits
6.2% →
TONIC 5.09 bits
5.3% →
LAIRY 4.71 bits
5.1% →
AINEE 4.58 bits
3.7% →
LAIRY 4.31 bits
3.6% →
TRASH 4.92 bits
3.2% →
TRADE 4.66 bits
3.2% →
ROAST 4.64 bits
2.9% →
PARTE 4.46 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1K5E1N1S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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