5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

SNIPE

SNIPE is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /snaɪp/

Noun

Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.

Noun

A fool; a blockhead.

Verb

To hunt snipe.

Verb

To shoot at individuals from a concealed place.

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

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 SNIPE performs as a guess

SNIPE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 84.6% of games, misses completely in 15.4%, and leaves about 133 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,733 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.

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__P_ S in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _N__E N in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

CORAL ALTER GRATE ROANY RATIO CLARY
Words starting with S Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.18 Entropy (bits)
133 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 91% of evaluated openers
0.77 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SNIPE 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
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#1,733 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SNIPE ranks #1,733 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
82
3 guesses
956
4 guesses
1,114
5 guesses
180
6 guesses
18
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
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
S N I P E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SNIPE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

119 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

363
281
147
138
129
97
78
66
57
50
43
41
38
38
38
35
35
33
32
27
26
23
21
21
21
20
19
18
18
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SNIPE:

15% chance
Suggested:
CORAL
12% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
6% chance
Suggested:
GRATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.4% →
CORAL 5.96 bits
11.9% →
ALTER 5.38 bits
6.2% →
GRATE 4.56 bits
5.9% →
ROANY 4.87 bits
5.5% →
RATIO 4.98 bits
4.1% →
CLARY 4.80 bits
3.3% →
TRASH 4.78 bits
2.8% →
LATER 4.34 bits
2.4% →
CLARY 4.51 bits
2.1% →
POUTY 4.57 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1N1I1P3E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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