Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

SNIES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of sny

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of snie

Noun

plural of sny

Noun

plural of snie

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 SNIES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SNIES 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 81.7% of games, misses completely in 18.3%, and leaves about 179 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,092 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe SNIES 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.

4.63 Entropy (bits)
179 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 60% of evaluated openers
1.32 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SNIES 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#10,092 Rank among openers
Opening with SNIES left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #10,092 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
786
4 guesses
1,207
5 guesses
279
6 guesses
27
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EINS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
40%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

SNIES can come back 85 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

435 answers
334 answers
162 answers
153 answers
153 answers
116 answers
70 answers
66 answers
66 answers
65 answers
64 answers
51 answers
50 answers
46 answers
39 answers
37 answers
32 answers
25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1N1I1E1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing SNIES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SNIES:

18% chance
Suggested:
CORAL
14% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
7% chance
Suggested:
OATER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.3%
CORAL 5.89 bits
14.1%
LEARE 5.51 bits
6.8%
OATER 4.20 bits
6.4%
TIDAL 4.91 bits
6.4%
ROANY 4.91 bits
4.9%
CLARY 4.75 bits
2.9%
PARTE 4.49 bits
2.8%
CLARY 4.54 bits
2.8%
LEARE 4.60 bits
2.7%
ROATE 4.42 bits

Research on SNIES

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

Optimal play

Opening with SNIES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,715 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 SNIES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.76, 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 SNYZ. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.