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

SATES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of sate

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of sate

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 SATES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SATES 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 137 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,086 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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.

S___S S in the 1st position and S in the 5th position S__E_ S in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position SA_ES S in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SATES 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.

4.90 Entropy (bits)
137 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 78% of evaluated openers
1.05 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SATES 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#9,086 Rank among openers
Opening with SATES left 2 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 3.74 average. It ranks #9,086 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
776
4 guesses
1,260
5 guesses
243
6 guesses
18
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AEST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
42%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

SATES can come back 88 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

357 answers
238 answers
184 answers
157 answers
136 answers
125 answers
109 answers
82 answers
72 answers
55 answers
51 answers
48 answers
45 answers
43 answers
39 answers
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31 answers
31 answers
29 answers
28 answers
28 answers
27 answers
24 answers
23 answers
19 answers
18 answers
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17 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1A1T1E1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Try next

COULD NOIRE ACORN OLDER BLARE TROUT

Strategy after playing SATES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SATES:

15% chance
Suggested:
COULD
10% chance
Suggested:
NOIRE
8% 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
10.0% →
NOIRE 5.15 bits
7.8% →
ACORN 4.95 bits
6.6% →
OLDER 4.19 bits
5.7% →
BLARE 4.71 bits
5.3% →
TROUT 5.04 bits
4.6% →
RANDY 4.05 bits
3.5% →
SLUNK 4.14 bits
3.0% →
TRITE 4.64 bits
2.3% →
TRAIL 4.37 bits

Research on SATES

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

Optimal play

Opening with SATES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #7,169 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 SATES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.74; proven optimal play reaches 3.73. 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 SAYTS.

Rhymes with RATES DATES GATES HATES MATES

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SATES is a kind of have.

Synonyms fill

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SATES sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with internal bodily sensation (3.6 of 5).

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).