5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SNAPS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of snap

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of snap

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

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 SNAPS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SNAPS 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 73.4% of games, misses completely in 26.6%, and leaves about 265 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,941 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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___S S in the 1st position and S in the 5th position S__P_ S in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _N__S N in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE TALER GOIER TRICE TONER ROUET
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.15 Entropy (bits)
265 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 30% of evaluated openers
1.80 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SNAPS 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#7,941 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SNAPS ranks #7,941 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
850
4 guesses
1,210
5 guesses
239
6 guesses
14
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ANS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
31%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

71 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

628
329
210
133
123
101
98
90
46
44
44
43
42
34
31
30
27
27
20
19
15
13
12
12
11
10
9
9
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SNAPS:

27% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
14% chance
Suggested:
TALER
9% chance
Suggested:
GOIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.6% →
TOILE 6.04 bits
14.0% →
TALER 5.57 bits
8.9% →
GOIER 5.38 bits
5.6% →
TRICE 5.05 bits
5.2% →
TOILE 5.03 bits
4.3% →
TONER 4.46 bits
4.2% →
TOILE 5.07 bits
3.8% →
ROUET 5.38 bits
2.0% →
CLOTE 3.78 bits
1.9% →
TUILE 4.66 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1N1A1P3S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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