5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet A tier opener

SANER

SANER is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 97.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

comparative form of sane: more sane

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

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 SANER performs as a guess

SANER is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 90.3% of games, misses completely in 9.7%, and leaves about 72 possible answers on average.

In the current bounded six-turn policy, it ranks #45 of 182 evaluated openers; exact misses rank first, then average guesses among wins.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #513 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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___R S in the 1st position and R in the 5th position S__E_ S in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__R A in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position SA_ER S in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

Try next

MOULT TOILE COURT ATOLL PORTE DEALT
Words starting with S Words ending with R

First-turn measures

5.73 Entropy (bits)
72 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
97.0% Avg ruled out
In the top 1% for first-turn entropy
0.22 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SANER 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#513 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SANER ranks #513 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
94
3 guesses
986
4 guesses
1,090
5 guesses
163
6 guesses
18
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AENRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
43%
All gray
10%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G L E A M
P E I S Y
S A F E R
S A N E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SANER in 5 guesses. See the trap-family guide for similar endgames.

Feedback distribution

133 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

228
141
115
96
92
91
77
75
72
70
68
61
51
49
44
40
38
36
36
36
35
32
30
27
27
26
26
25
25
23

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SANER:

10% chance
Suggested:
MOULT
6% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
5% chance
Suggested:
COURT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.7% →
MOULT 5.44 bits
6.0% →
TOILE 5.41 bits
4.9% →
COURT 5.05 bits
4.1% →
ATOLL 5.00 bits
3.9% →
PORTE 4.29 bits
3.9% →
DEALT 4.91 bits
3.3% →
TOILE 3.36 bits
3.2% →
SPILT 4.54 bits
3.1% →
COLEY 3.64 bits
3.0% →
CRAFT 4.22 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1A1N1E1R1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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