5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SKIOS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of skio

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 SKIOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SKIOS 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 71.1% of games, misses completely in 28.9%, and leaves about 310 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,160 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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__O_ S in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _K__S K in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TALER TRADE TILDE PEART GRATE PRATE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.81 Entropy (bits)
310 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 15% of evaluated openers
2.13 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SKIOS 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#12,160 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SKIOS ranks #12,160 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
27
3 guesses
732
4 guesses
1,270
5 guesses
295
6 guesses
28
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:
IOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
31%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

58 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

681
337
260
158
147
108
87
81
53
46
41
38
29
27
26
21
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SKIOS:

29% chance
Suggested:
TALER
14% chance
Suggested:
TRADE
11% chance
Suggested:
TILDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.9% →
TALER 6.07 bits
14.3% →
TRADE 5.14 bits
11.0% →
TILDE 5.19 bits
6.7% →
PEART 5.36 bits
6.2% →
GRATE 5.08 bits
4.6% →
PRATE 5.44 bits
3.7% →
TALER 4.96 bits
3.4% →
CARLE 5.26 bits
2.2% →
RONTE 4.34 bits
2.0% →
RONTE 4.13 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1K5I1O1S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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