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

SKYEY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /skaɪi/

Adjective

Resembling the sky.

Adjective

Of or relating to the sky.

Alternative forms: skiey

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

Use SKYEY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 87.2% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How SKYEY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SKYEY 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 74.5% of games, misses completely in 25.5%, and leaves about 306 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,518 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.96 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe SKYEY 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.

3.69 Entropy (bits)
306 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SKYEY 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.

3.96 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#14,518 Rank among openers
Opening with SKYEY left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.96 average. It ranks #14,518 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
544
4 guesses
1,314
5 guesses
415
6 guesses
45

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
42%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

SKYEY can come back 49 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

607 answers
452 answers
232 answers
197 answers
147 answers
102 answers
94 answers
88 answers
69 answers
54 answers
35 answers
34 answers
32 answers
31 answers
30 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
15 answers
12 answers
12 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1K5Y4E1Y4
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Strategy after playing SKYEY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SKYEY:

25% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
19% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
10% chance
Suggested:
LATER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.5% →
TRAIL 6.05 bits
19.0% →
RAILE 5.16 bits
9.7% →
LATER 4.25 bits
8.3% →
DAILY 4.16 bits
6.2% →
ROAST 4.61 bits
4.3% →
ROAST 4.85 bits
3.9% →
TIARE 4.24 bits
3.7% →
ROUTE 4.41 bits
2.9% →
CLARY 4.64 bits
2.3% →
LEARE 4.18 bits

Research on SKYEY

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

Optimal play

Opening with SKYEY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.90 guesses and ranks #13,810 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 SKYEY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.96; proven optimal play reaches 3.90. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).