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CEDAR

Yes, CEDAR was the Wordle answer on April 29, 2023 (Wordle #679).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈsiː.də//ˈsi.dɚ/

Noun

A coniferous tree of the genus Cedrus in the family Pinaceae.

Noun

A coniferous tree of the family Cupressaceae, especially of the genera Juniperus, Cupressus, Calocedrus, or Thuja.

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: April 29, 2023 (#679).

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

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How CEDAR performs as a guess

CEDAR 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 86.6% of games, misses completely in 13.4%, and leaves about 113 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #765 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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___R C in the 1st position and R in the 5th position C__A_ C in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _E__R E in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe CEDAR 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.

5.32 Entropy (bits)
113 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 95% of evaluated openers
0.62 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CEDAR 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#765 Rank among openers
Opening with CEDAR left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.59 average. It ranks #765 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
86
3 guesses
976
4 guesses
1,107
5 guesses
169
6 guesses
12
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
33%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G L E A M
C E D A R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches CEDAR in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

CEDAR can come back 125 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

317 answers
205 answers
203 answers
137 answers
122 answers
82 answers
78 answers
75 answers
69 answers
60 answers
58 answers
43 answers
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32 answers
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28 answers
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24 answers
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18 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3E1D2A1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SOILY STILE SLANT GROUT SLATE TOISE

Strategy after playing CEDAR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CEDAR:

13% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
9% chance
Suggested:
STILE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.4% →
SOILY 5.75 bits
8.6% →
STILE 5.53 bits
8.6% →
SLANT 5.45 bits
5.8% →
GROUT 5.12 bits
5.1% →
SLATE 4.64 bits
3.5% →
TOISE 4.68 bits
3.3% →
APART 4.41 bits
3.2% →
TOISE 3.49 bits
2.9% →
TOUCH 4.58 bits
2.5% →
SONLY 4.13 bits

Research on CEDAR

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

Optimal play

Opening with CEDAR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #471 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 CEDAR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it SEEDUR.

Rhymes with CEDER

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, CEDAR is a kind of tree or wood.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CEDAR sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 6 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 (3.5 of 5).

In a sentence

There used to be a large cedar tree there.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)
The scent of cedar repels moths.
© tatoeba.org contributor Hybrid (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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).