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

SKYRE

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

No dictionary definition for SKYRE is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 SKYRE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SKYRE 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 84.5% of games, misses completely in 15.5%, and leaves about 149 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,344 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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 SKYRE 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.

4.72 Entropy (bits)
149 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 67% of evaluated openers
1.22 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SKYRE 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#10,344 Rank among openers
Opening with SKYRE left 5 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 3.77 average. It ranks #10,344 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
785
4 guesses
1,227
5 guesses
256
6 guesses
37
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
36%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

SKYRE can come back 77 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

368 answers
203 answers
199 answers
188 answers
176 answers
159 answers
109 answers
84 answers
69 answers
51 answers
48 answers
46 answers
43 answers
39 answers
37 answers
35 answers
32 answers
29 answers
29 answers
26 answers
24 answers
24 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1K5Y4R1E1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing SKYRE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SKYRE:

16% chance
Suggested:
TONAL
9% chance
Suggested:
LEANT
8% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.5%
TONAL 6.00 bits
8.6%
LEANT 5.27 bits
8.4%
TRAIN 5.13 bits
7.9%
TRIER 4.17 bits
7.4%
ALINE 4.49 bits
6.7%
DAILY 4.53 bits
4.6%
SLANT 4.69 bits
3.5%
GRICE 3.54 bits
2.9%
LASSO 4.60 bits
2.1%
LEANT 3.66 bits

Research on SKYRE

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

Optimal play

Opening with SKYRE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,343 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 SKYRE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77; proven optimal play reaches 3.74. 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it SKYR. 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.