5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SNOWS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /snəʊz/[snəʊ̯z]/snoʊz/

Noun

One or both regions of the Earth where it snows the year round; the Arctic and/or Antarctic.

Noun

Clipping of snow tires.

“You’d better be wearing your snows next week.”

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of snow

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 SNOWS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SNOWS 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 64.8% of games, misses completely in 35.2%, and leaves about 375 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,148 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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__W_ S in the 1st position and W in the 4th position _N__S N in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE TALER PLATE PRATE CRATE RONTE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.71 Entropy (bits)
375 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 12% of evaluated openers
2.24 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SNOWS 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#12,148 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SNOWS ranks #12,148 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
738
4 guesses
1,233
5 guesses
326
6 guesses
22
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:
NOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
28%
All gray
35%

Feedback distribution

65 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

829
240
229
190
124
109
87
63
51
47
46
30
27
25
17
17
16
14
13
12
12
11
10
9
9
8
8
8
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SNOWS:

35% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
10% chance
Suggested:
TALER
10% chance
Suggested:
RAILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.2% →
RAILE 6.23 bits
10.2% →
TALER 5.31 bits
9.7% →
RAILE 5.34 bits
8.1% →
PLATE 5.49 bits
5.3% →
PRATE 5.51 bits
4.6% →
CRATE 4.50 bits
3.7% →
RONTE 4.47 bits
2.7% →
THALE 5.12 bits
2.2% →
IRATE 4.83 bits
2.0% →
PALET 4.23 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1N1O1W4S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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