5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier for first-turn info

SNIDE

Yes, SNIDE was the Wordle answer on December 9, 2025 (Wordle #1634).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.7% of possible answers.

Open Solver with SNIDE Open Word Finder

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /snaɪd/

Adjective

Disparaging or derisive in an insinuative way.

“Don't make snide remarks to me.”

Adjective

Tricky; deceptive; false; spurious; contemptible.

Noun

An underhanded, tricky person given to sharp practice; a sharper; a cheat.

Noun

Counterfeit money.

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: December 9, 2025 (#1634).

See the full page for that puzzle: December 9, 2025 (#1634).

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

Wordle Observatory · optional

Played this Wordle?

Add your result to the public totals · about 20 seconds

Add your result and a quick difficulty rating to help explain how this puzzle played.

See the public data

The Observatory retains the selected puzzle, result, rating, optional Hard Mode answer and a random one-puzzle receipt. It stores no answer word, grid, guesses, account, email, IP-derived ID or reusable player identifier.

How verification and withdrawal work

The answer word and timezone are used transiently to verify this page, then discarded. The receipt prevents duplicate submissions and lets this browser withdraw later; anyone with that token can withdraw, so keep browser-data exports private. Read the full privacy details.

How SNIDE performs as a guess

SNIDE 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 85.0% of games, misses completely in 15.0%, and leaves about 126 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,536 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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.
See strategy patterns

Useful pattern pages

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

S___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__D_ S in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _N__E N in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SNIDE 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.

5.20 Entropy (bits)
126 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 92% of evaluated openers
0.75 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SNIDE 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#1,536 Rank among openers
Opening with SNIDE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,536 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
82
3 guesses
941
4 guesses
1,156
5 guesses
154
6 guesses
19
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
2 vowels
Common:
EINS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
41%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N G
S N I D E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SNIDE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SNIDE can come back 118 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

357 answers
261 answers
141 answers
124 answers
116 answers
111 answers
89 answers
65 answers
57 answers
56 answers
55 answers
48 answers
45 answers
44 answers
42 answers
40 answers
40 answers
34 answers
34 answers
31 answers
28 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1N1I1D2E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

CAROL LATER GRATE TONAL CLARY RATIO

Strategy after playing SNIDE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SNIDE:

15% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
11% chance
Suggested:
LATER
6% chance
Suggested:
GRATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.0% →
CAROL 6.02 bits
11.0% →
LATER 5.37 bits
5.9% →
GRATE 4.56 bits
5.2% →
TONAL 4.96 bits
4.9% →
CLARY 4.73 bits
4.7% →
RATIO 4.85 bits
3.7% →
TRASH 4.93 bits
2.7% →
RAVEN 4.41 bits
2.4% →
HOARD 4.70 bits
2.4% →
DETER 4.50 bits

Research on SNIDE

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

Optimal play

Opening with SNIDE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #995 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with SNIDE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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

One syllable Say it SNYD.

Rhymes with TRIED GUIDE ASIDE PRIDE SLIDE

Related meanings

Opposites complimentary

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SNIDE sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (3.2 of 5).

In a sentence

There's no need to be snide.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
There's no need to be snide about it.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); 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).