5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

SNOEK

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% of possible answers.

Open Solver with SNOEK Open Word Finder

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

An edible fish, Thyrsites atun, native to South African (Cape), South American and Australian waters, often smoked or salted.

Noun

The queen mackerel, Scomberomorus lineolatus.

Alternative forms: snook

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 SNOEK performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SNOEK 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 85.5% of games, misses completely in 14.5%, and leaves about 148 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,609 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___K S in the 1st position and K in the 5th position S__E_ S in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _N__K N in the 2nd position and K in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL REATE MOLAR ALTER RAINY SLART
Words starting with S Words ending with K

First-turn measures

4.91 Entropy (bits)
148 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 78% of evaluated openers
1.04 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SNOEK 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
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#6,609 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SNOEK ranks #6,609 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
854
4 guesses
1,186
5 guesses
234
6 guesses
16
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:
ENOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
40%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

101 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

341
335
178
149
121
97
85
76
68
67
64
62
44
37
31
31
27
27
27
25
25
25
19
16
15
15
15
14
14
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SNOEK:

14% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
14% chance
Suggested:
REATE
8% chance
Suggested:
MOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.5% →
TRAIL 5.97 bits
14.2% →
REATE 5.59 bits
7.5% →
MOLAR 5.07 bits
6.3% →
ALTER 4.32 bits
5.1% →
RAINY 4.87 bits
4.1% →
SLART 4.56 bits
3.6% →
TRASH 4.76 bits
3.2% →
DROOL 4.29 bits
2.9% →
GEARE 4.60 bits
2.8% →
RAINY 3.90 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1N1O1E1K5
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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