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Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SNITS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of snit

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 SNITS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SNITS 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 71.9% of games, misses completely in 28.1%, and leaves about 256 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,082 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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___S S in the 1st position and S in the 5th position S__T_ S in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _N__S N in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CARLE CARET HAOLE PALER PARLE PHARE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.32 Entropy (bits)
256 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 40% of evaluated openers
1.63 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SNITS 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
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#7,082 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SNITS ranks #7,082 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
883
4 guesses
1,197
5 guesses
218
6 guesses
19
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
INST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
34%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

74 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

663
202
201
146
134
91
84
66
64
64
62
43
42
37
32
29
25
25
19
18
16
15
14
13
13
12
12
12
12
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SNITS:

28% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
9% chance
Suggested:
CARET
9% chance
Suggested:
HAOLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.1% →
CARLE 6.20 bits
8.6% →
CARET 5.53 bits
8.5% →
HAOLE 5.26 bits
6.2% →
PALER 5.14 bits
5.7% →
PARLE 5.43 bits
3.9% →
CARLE 5.03 bits
3.6% →
PHARE 5.13 bits
2.8% →
TITHE 4.27 bits
2.7% →
PARLE 4.75 bits
2.7% →
PEART 4.50 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1N1I1T1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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