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

SAETA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A Spanish religious song evoking strong emotion, usually sung during public processions.

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 SAETA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SAETA 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 85.0% of games, misses completely in 15.0%, and leaves about 146 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,901 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe SAETA 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.

4.96 Entropy (bits)
146 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 81% of evaluated openers
0.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SAETA 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
99.75% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#6,901 Rank among openers
Opening with SAETA left 6 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 3.70 average. It ranks #6,901 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
829
4 guesses
1,231
5 guesses
206
6 guesses
21
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:
AEST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
39%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

SAETA can come back 93 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

357 answers
343 answers
147 answers
111 answers
111 answers
88 answers
88 answers
86 answers
68 answers
54 answers
53 answers
52 answers
49 answers
45 answers
44 answers
43 answers
42 answers
39 answers
24 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1A1E1T1A1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Strategy after playing SAETA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SAETA:

15% chance
Suggested:
COULD
14% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
6% chance
Suggested:
ACORN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.0%
COULD 5.57 bits
14.4%
RIONE 5.28 bits
6.2%
ACORN 4.83 bits
4.7%
COURT 5.06 bits
4.7%
BLARE 4.69 bits
3.7%
TIMER 4.63 bits
3.7%
SLINK 4.23 bits
3.6%
RANDY 4.16 bits
2.9%
LAGER 4.08 bits
2.3%
MORNE 4.08 bits

Research on SAETA

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

Optimal play

Opening with SAETA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,430 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 SAETA can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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 SAYTUH. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.