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SNORE

Yes, SNORE was the Wordle answer on April 22, 2026 (Wordle #1768).

As an opener, it rules out about 96.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /snɔː//snoɹ//sno(ː)ɹ/

Verb

To breathe during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate.

Noun

The act of snoring, and the noise produced.

Noun

An extremely boring person or event.

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: April 22, 2026 (#1768).

See the full page for that puzzle: April 22, 2026 (#1768).

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

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How SNORE performs as a guess

SNORE 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 89.8% of games, misses completely in 10.2%, and leaves about 84 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #705 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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__R_ S in the 1st position and R 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 SNORE.

First-turn measures

All four describe SNORE 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.

5.58 Entropy (bits)
84 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.4% Avg ruled out
In the top 1% for first-turn entropy
0.37 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SNORE 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#705 Rank among openers
Opening with SNORE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.59 average. It ranks #705 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
88
3 guesses
994
4 guesses
1,081
5 guesses
168
6 guesses
21
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:
ENORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
42%
All gray
10%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P R O N G
S N O R E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SNORE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SNORE can come back 130 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

241 answers
159 answers
145 answers
118 answers
113 answers
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108 answers
86 answers
66 answers
62 answers
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Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1N1O1R1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

PLAIT TALER DEALT EAGLE GIANT LOATH

Strategy after playing SNORE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SNORE:

10% chance
Suggested:
PLAIT
7% chance
Suggested:
TALER
6% chance
Suggested:
DEALT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.2% →
PLAIT 5.59 bits
6.7% →
TALER 4.40 bits
6.1% →
DEALT 5.49 bits
5.0% →
EAGLE 4.64 bits
4.8% →
GIANT 4.97 bits
4.6% →
LOATH 4.75 bits
4.5% →
TRIAL 5.11 bits
3.6% →
SHALT 4.67 bits
2.8% →
PALSY 4.56 bits
2.6% →
CAROM 4.51 bits

Research on SNORE

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

Optimal play

Opening with SNORE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.60 guesses and ranks #222 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.75 guesses at best and is rank #394 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.60, 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 SNAWR.

Rhymes with STORE FLOOR SCORE SHORE CORPS

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SNORE is a kind of noise or breathing.

Synonyms snoring

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SNORE sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (4.6 of 5).

In a sentence

I think that I snore.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
You don't snore, do you?
© tatoeba.org contributor Hybrid (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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).