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CEASE

Yes, CEASE was the Wordle answer on June 4, 2025 (Wordle #1446).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /sis//siːs/

Verb

To stop.

“And with that, his twitching ceased.”

Verb

To stop doing (something).

“And with that, he ceased twitching.”

Noun

Cessation; extinction (see without cease).

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: June 4, 2025 (#1446).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 4, 2025 (#1446).

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

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How CEASE performs as a guess

CEASE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 84.0% of games, misses completely in 16.0%, and leaves about 132 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,216 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

C___E C in the 1st position and E in the 5th position C__S_ C in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in CEASE.

First-turn measures

All four describe CEASE 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.

5.10 Entropy (bits)
132 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 88% of evaluated openers
0.85 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CEASE 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#7,216 Rank among openers
Opening with CEASE left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,216 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
847
4 guesses
1,197
5 guesses
232
6 guesses
19
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
44%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
C E A S E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CEASE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

CEASE can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

381 answers
240 answers
165 answers
143 answers
108 answers
87 answers
75 answers
67 answers
66 answers
63 answers
49 answers
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23 answers
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19 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3E1A1S1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

DROIT TALON OLDER SNOUT GOIER ALTER

Strategy after playing CEASE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CEASE:

16% chance
Suggested:
DROIT
10% chance
Suggested:
TALON
7% chance
Suggested:
OLDER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.0% →
DROIT 5.62 bits
10.1% →
TALON 5.23 bits
7.0% →
OLDER 4.79 bits
6.0% →
SNOUT 4.87 bits
4.5% →
GOIER 4.28 bits
3.7% →
ALTER 4.55 bits
3.2% →
TRAIN 4.36 bits
2.8% →
REMIT 4.27 bits
2.8% →
TOUCH 4.40 bits
2.7% →
NOIRE 4.29 bits

Research on CEASE

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

Optimal play

Opening with CEASE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,496 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 CEASE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71; proven optimal play reaches 3.70. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it SEES.

Rhymes with PIECE PEACE LEASE NIECE OBESE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CEASE is a kind of end or terminate.

Synonyms end stop BREAK finish quit terminate

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CEASE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 11 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 10, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 29 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.

In a sentence

You will soon cease to think of her.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)
You never cease to surprise me.
© tatoeba.org contributor MethodGT (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).