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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).

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 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 76.9% of games, misses completely in 23.1%, and leaves about 210 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,459 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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.

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

Try next

TOILE TALER GOIER DROLE PORTE TRICE
Words starting with S Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.52 Entropy (bits)
210 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 opener: v5 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
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#5,459 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SNAKY 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 (3.45 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

90 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

544
284
174
141
129
116
111
90
57
47
40
39
36
33
32
31
27
26
22
22
19
16
16
16
15
14
12
12
12
12

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.

23.1% →
TOILE 6.11 bits
12.0% →
TALER 5.60 bits
7.4% →
GOIER 5.50 bits
6.0% →
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

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.