SWINE
Yes, SWINE was the Wordle answer on May 26, 2023 (Wordle #706).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /swaɪn/
- Noun
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A pig, an animal of family Suidae, especially in agricultural contexts.
“The Zimmermann farm raises swine for their meat.”
- Noun
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Pig, pork, the meat of pigs.
“The Book says don't eat no swine.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English swyn, swin, from Old English swīn, from Proto-West Germanic *swīn, from Proto-Germanic *swīną, from an adjectival form of Proto-Indo-European *suH- (“pig”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it SWYN.
Rhymes with SHINE SPINE STEIN ALIGN THINE
In a sentence
A swine sees no sky.
Are you concerned about swine flu?
Use SWINE in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: May 26, 2023 (#706).
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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SWINE appeared in ASSOCIATED WITH PEARLS (blue group).
How SWINE performs as a guess
SWINE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 83.4% of games, misses completely in 16.6%, and leaves about 148 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,794 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe SWINE 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How SWINE 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches SWINE in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
SWINE can come back 114 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for SWINE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
Try next
Strategy after playing SWINE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SWINE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing SWINE:
Research on SWINE
Game-tree analysis and word research for SWINE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with SWINE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #3,940 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.83 guesses at best and is rank #2,278 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- SWINE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.9 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).