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SNAKY

Yes, SNAKY was the Wordle answer on August 14, 2023 (Wordle #786).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈsneɪki/

Adjective

Resembling or relating to snakes; snakelike.

Adjective

Windy; winding; twisty; sinuous, wavy.

“Walking through the snaky passages I was soon completely lost.”

Alternative forms: snakey

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: August 14, 2023 (#786).

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

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How SNAKY performs as a guess

SNAKY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 77.0% of games, misses completely in 23.0%, and leaves about 211 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,459 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

S___Y S in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position S__K_ S in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _N__Y N in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in SNAKY.

First-turn measures

All four describe SNAKY 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.

4.52 Entropy (bits)
211 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 53% of evaluated openers
1.43 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SNAKY 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#5,459 Rank among openers
Opening with SNAKY solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,459 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
888
4 guesses
1,212
5 guesses
191
6 guesses
16
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:
ANS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
42%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
S H A K Y
S N A K Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SNAKY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SNAKY can come back 90 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

547 answers
285 answers
176 answers
141 answers
130 answers
116 answers
111 answers
91 answers
57 answers
47 answers
41 answers
40 answers
36 answers
34 answers
32 answers
31 answers
28 answers
27 answers
22 answers
22 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1N1A1K5Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

TOILE TALER GOIER DROLE PORTE TRICE

Strategy after playing SNAKY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SNAKY:

23% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
12% chance
Suggested:
TALER
7% chance
Suggested:
GOIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.0% →
TOILE 6.11 bits
12.0% →
TALER 5.60 bits
7.4% →
GOIER 5.49 bits
5.9% →
DROLE 4.91 bits
5.5% →
PORTE 5.17 bits
4.9% →
TRICE 5.05 bits
4.7% →
ROUET 5.47 bits
3.8% →
TONER 4.47 bits
2.4% →
TARDY 3.84 bits
2.0% →
THALE 3.92 bits

Research on SNAKY

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

Optimal play

Opening with SNAKY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,839 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.88 guesses at best and is rank #3,820 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, because the two figures score different answer lists.

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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it SNAYKEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

Synonyms serpentine curved curving

Opposites straight

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SNAKY sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.1 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).