5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SACRA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of sacrum

Noun

sacral artery

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 SACRA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SACRA 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 80.0% of games, misses completely in 20.0%, and leaves about 185 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,900 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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___A S in the 1st position and A in the 5th position S__R_ S in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _A__A A in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE ALONE CLINE BLATE TOISE THALE
Words starting with S Words ending with A

First-turn measures

4.59 Entropy (bits)
185 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 58% of evaluated openers
1.35 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SACRA 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#6,900 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SACRA ranks #6,900 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
895
4 guesses
1,164
5 guesses
229
6 guesses
22
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
2 vowels
Common:
ARS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
36%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

84 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

472
296
171
155
132
105
95
93
63
61
57
48
41
38
32
30
29
29
27
26
25
25
20
16
15
14
13
13
13
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SACRA:

20% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
13% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
7% chance
Suggested:
ALONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.0% →
TOILE 6.13 bits
12.6% →
TOILE 5.22 bits
7.3% →
ALONE 5.47 bits
6.6% →
TOILE 5.09 bits
5.6% →
CLINE 5.25 bits
4.5% →
TOILE 4.52 bits
4.0% →
BLATE 4.32 bits
3.9% →
TOISE 5.01 bits
2.7% →
THALE 4.40 bits
2.6% →
TONEY 3.95 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1A1C3R1A1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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