5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

SNARF

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /snɑː(ɹ)f/

Verb

To eat or consume greedily.

“He snarfed a whole bag of chips in a couple of minutes!”

Verb

To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take something without regard to etiquette.

“I snarfed a bunch of freebies from the vendor's booth when he wasn't looking.”

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 SNARF performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SNARF 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 84.3% of games, misses completely in 15.7%, and leaves about 143 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,390 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___F S in the 1st position and F in the 5th position S__R_ S in the 1st position and R in the 4th position

Try next

TOILE CLOTE TALER THOSE GOIER UTILE
Words starting with S Words ending with F

First-turn measures

4.88 Entropy (bits)
143 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 77% of evaluated openers
1.07 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SNARF 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#2,390 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SNARF ranks #2,390 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
976
4 guesses
1,136
5 guesses
177
6 guesses
12
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:
ANRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
32%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

93 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

370
251
204
148
121
119
85
82
66
59
47
46
45
43
42
41
37
37
34
28
27
26
24
22
21
20
19
17
16
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SNARF:

16% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
11% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
9% chance
Suggested:
CLOTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.7% →
TOILE 6.10 bits
10.6% →
TOILE 5.23 bits
8.7% →
CLOTE 5.33 bits
6.3% →
TOILE 5.22 bits
5.1% →
TALER 4.63 bits
5.0% →
TOILE 5.20 bits
3.6% →
TOILE 4.54 bits
3.5% →
THOSE 4.91 bits
2.8% →
CLOTE 4.62 bits
2.5% →
GOIER 4.54 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1N1A1R1F4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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