5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SNYES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of snye

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 SNYES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SNYES 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 80.4% of games, misses completely in 19.6%, and leaves about 215 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,772 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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__E_ S in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _N__S N in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL TRADE TRAIN SOLAR DAILY STAIR
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.22 Entropy (bits)
215 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 34% of evaluated openers
1.73 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SNYES 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#12,772 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SNYES ranks #12,772 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
677
4 guesses
1,289
5 guesses
317
6 guesses
27
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:
ENS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
33%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

64 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

462
375
190
184
179
121
85
83
68
67
50
47
43
41
32
29
26
22
20
16
15
15
15
12
12
11
10
10
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SNYES:

20% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
16% chance
Suggested:
TRADE
8% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.6% →
TRAIL 6.09 bits
15.9% →
TRADE 5.44 bits
8.1% →
TRAIN 5.18 bits
7.8% →
SOLAR 3.90 bits
7.6% →
DAILY 4.37 bits
5.1% →
STAIR 4.57 bits
3.6% →
PLATE 4.60 bits
3.5% →
CRINE 4.32 bits
2.9% →
ROAST 4.26 bits
2.8% →
TRASH 4.71 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1N1Y4E1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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