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SNIPE

Yes, SNIPE was the Wordle answer on August 10, 2026 (Wordle #1878).

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: August 10, 2026 (#1878).

See the full page for that puzzle: August 10, 2026 (#1878).

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

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How SNIPE performs as a guess

SNIPE 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 84.7% of games, misses completely in 15.3%, and leaves about 133 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,733 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SNIPE 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.

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

As an opening guess: previous 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
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#1,733 Rank among openers
Opening with SNIPE left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It 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 (3.46 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
S N I P E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SNIPE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SNIPE can come back 119 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

364 answers
281 answers
148 answers
140 answers
129 answers
97 answers
78 answers
68 answers
57 answers
50 answers
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38 answers
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27 answers
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18 answers
16 answers

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.

Try next

CORAL ALTER GRATE ROANY RATIO CLARY

Strategy after playing SNIPE

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

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.

15.3% →
CORAL 5.97 bits
11.8% →
ALTER 5.38 bits
6.2% →
GRATE 4.56 bits
5.9% →
ROANY 4.89 bits
5.4% →
RATIO 4.98 bits
4.1% →
CLARY 4.79 bits
3.3% →
TRASH 4.78 bits
2.9% →
LATER 4.34 bits
2.4% →
CLARY 4.51 bits
2.1% →
POUTY 4.57 bits

Research on SNIPE

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

Optimal play

Opening with SNIPE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #572 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.76 guesses at best and is rank #422 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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 SNYP.

Rhymes with SWIPE GRIPE STIPE TRIPE CRIPE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SNIPE is a kind of gunfire or run.

Synonyms ROUND attack assault

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SNIPE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.2 of 5).

In a sentence

This game has no sniper rifles, so you can't snipe in it.
© tatoeba.org contributor sabretou (CC BY 2.0 FR)
This is a great rifle to snipe with, if you can handle the recoil.
© tatoeba.org contributor sabretou (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).