5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SNUBS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 82.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of snub

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of snub

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 SNUBS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SNUBS 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 62.4% of games, misses completely in 37.6%, and leaves about 416 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,859 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__B_ S in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _N__S N in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE ARIEL PLATE MARLE BLARE TRAPE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.57 Entropy (bits)
416 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 8% of evaluated openers
2.38 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SNUBS 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
0.70 Volatility
#11,859 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SNUBS ranks #11,859 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
33
3 guesses
733
4 guesses
1,265
5 guesses
303
6 guesses
20
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:
NSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
62%
Green tile
27%
All gray
38%

Feedback distribution

58 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

886
280
226
136
130
121
70
54
44
34
28
28
28
23
23
21
17
17
17
16
15
15
15
12
10
10
10
9
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SNUBS:

38% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
12% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
10% chance
Suggested:
PLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

37.6% →
ROATE 6.09 bits
11.9% →
ARIEL 5.42 bits
9.6% →
PLATE 5.50 bits
5.8% →
MARLE 4.72 bits
5.5% →
BLARE 5.48 bits
5.1% →
TRAPE 5.65 bits
3.0% →
CLOTE 5.10 bits
2.3% →
WAITE 4.48 bits
1.9% →
ARIEL 4.77 bits
1.4% →
RAILE 4.43 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1N1U1B3S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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