5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

SNEAK

Yes, SNEAK was the Wordle answer on October 28, 2022 (Wordle #496).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /sniːk/

Noun

One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.

“My little brother is such a sneak; yesterday I caught him trying to look through my diary.”

Noun

The act of sneaking

Verb

To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen.

“He decided to sneak into the kitchen for a second cookie while his mom was on the phone.”

Verb

To take something stealthily without permission.

“I went to sneak a chocolate but my dad caught me.”

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: October 28, 2022 (#496).

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

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How SNEAK performs as a guess

SNEAK is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 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 148 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,688 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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___K S in the 1st position and K in the 5th position S__A_ S in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _N__K N in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

MOULT TOILE RATIO CARLE IRONY MOIRE
Words starting with S Words ending with K

First-turn measures

4.90 Entropy (bits)
148 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SNEAK 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#6,688 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SNEAK ranks #6,688 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
839
4 guesses
1,198
5 guesses
230
6 guesses
16

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AENS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
31%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SNEAK in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

102 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

328
324
216
170
115
88
80
78
70
52
51
47
47
45
44
35
26
25
25
25
24
22
21
18
18
17
15
15
13
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SNEAK:

14% chance
Suggested:
MOULT
14% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
9% chance
Suggested:
RATIO

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.9% →
MOULT 5.57 bits
13.7% →
TOILE 5.25 bits
9.2% →
RATIO 4.97 bits
7.2% →
CARLE 4.73 bits
4.9% →
IRONY 4.90 bits
3.7% →
MOIRE 4.49 bits
3.4% →
RAINY 4.20 bits
3.3% →
SPILT 4.51 bits
3.0% →
HOIST 4.70 bits
2.2% →
GREET 4.27 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1N1E1A1K5
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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