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SNAKE

Yes, SNAKE was the Wordle answer on January 27, 2024 (Wordle #952).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /sneɪk/

Noun

Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptiles with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.

Noun

A person who acts deceitfully for personal or social gain; a treacherous person.

Verb

To follow or move in a winding route.

“The path snaked through the forest.”

Verb

To steal slyly.

“He snaked my DVD!”

Alternative forms: snek

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: January 27, 2024 (#952).

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

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How SNAKE performs as a guess

SNAKE 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 86.1% of games, misses completely in 13.9%, and leaves about 125 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,967 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__K_ S in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _N__E N in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

MOULT DETER CAROL GOIER IRONY ALTER
Words starting with S Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.14 Entropy (bits)
125 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 89% of evaluated openers
0.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SNAKE 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#4,967 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SNAKE ranks #4,967 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
78
3 guesses
851
4 guesses
1,206
5 guesses
195
6 guesses
19
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:
AENS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
42%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
D R A N K
S N A K E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SNAKE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

110 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

328
243
207
133
115
100
77
76
70
63
60
46
43
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SNAKE:

14% chance
Suggested:
MOULT
10% chance
Suggested:
DETER
9% chance
Suggested:
CAROL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.9% →
MOULT 5.57 bits
10.3% →
DETER 5.45 bits
8.8% →
CAROL 5.22 bits
5.6% →
GOIER 4.32 bits
4.9% →
IRONY 4.90 bits
4.2% →
ALTER 4.59 bits
3.3% →
SPOUT 4.34 bits
3.2% →
TANGO 4.21 bits
3.0% →
HOIST 4.70 bits
2.7% →
LINER 4.33 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1N1A1K5E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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