Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

SYENS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of syen

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use SYENS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 90.0% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How SYENS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SYENS 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 80.6% of games, misses completely in 19.4%, and leaves about 239 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,710 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe SYENS 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.

4.17 Entropy (bits)
239 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SYENS 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,710 Rank among openers
Opening with SYENS 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 3.83 average. It ranks #12,710 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
691
4 guesses
1,265
5 guesses
326
6 guesses
28

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ENS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
29%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

SYENS can come back 65 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

485 answers
463 answers
186 answers
127 answers
122 answers
120 answers
86 answers
79 answers
77 answers
74 answers
68 answers
58 answers
38 answers
34 answers
28 answers
28 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1Y4E1N1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing SYENS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SYENS:

20% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
19% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
8% chance
Suggested:
DAILY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.3% →
RAILE 5.36 bits
19.4% →
TRAIL 6.09 bits
7.8% →
DAILY 4.37 bits
5.3% →
CABIN 5.03 bits
5.1% →
STAIR 4.57 bits
5.0% →
AINEE 4.63 bits
3.6% →
GRANT 4.31 bits
3.3% →
TRACE 4.79 bits
3.2% →
PARTE 4.46 bits
3.1% →
ROAST 4.63 bits

Research on SYENS

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

Optimal play

Opening with SYENS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,373 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with SYENS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.83, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).