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SNAFU

Yes, SNAFU was the Wordle answer on April 9, 2023 (Wordle #659).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Phrase

Alternative letter-case form of SNAFU.

Noun

Alternative letter-case form of SNAFU.

Verb

To screw up, fuck up, or foul up.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: April 9, 2023 (#659).

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

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How SNAFU performs as a guess

SNAFU is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 79.9% of games, misses completely in 20.1%, and leaves about 194 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,285 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

S___U S in the 1st position and U in the 5th position S__F_ S in the 1st position and F in the 4th position

Try next

TRODE TALER CLOTE GOIER TRIPE TRICE
Words starting with S Words ending with U

First-turn measures

4.46 Entropy (bits)
194 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 49% of evaluated openers
1.49 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SNAFU 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#6,285 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SNAFU ranks #6,285 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
874
4 guesses
1,213
5 guesses
206
6 guesses
15
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
29%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
S W A S H
S N A F U

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SNAFU in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

78 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

475
311
183
166
131
124
94
81
65
59
49
46
45
38
37
35
34
34
32
26
25
17
15
14
14
13
12
11
11
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SNAFU:

20% chance
Suggested:
TRODE
13% chance
Suggested:
TALER
8% chance
Suggested:
CLOTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.1% →
TRODE 6.00 bits
13.2% →
TALER 5.54 bits
7.8% →
CLOTE 5.22 bits
7.0% →
GOIER 5.39 bits
5.6% →
TRIPE 5.11 bits
5.3% →
TRICE 5.11 bits
4.0% →
GOIER 4.40 bits
3.4% →
TROPE 5.24 bits
2.8% →
FRITE 4.99 bits
2.5% →
THALE 3.84 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1N1A1F4U1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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