5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet A tier opener

SAUCE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /sɔːs//soːs//sɔs/

Noun

A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.

“apple sauce; mint sauce”

Noun

Tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in

Verb

To add sauce to; to season.

Verb

To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate.

Alternative forms: sawce

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 SAUCE performs as a guess

SAUCE 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 89.4% of games, misses completely in 10.6%, and leaves about 97 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,381 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__C_ S in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

TENOR DIRTY TRAIL TARDY GOIER ALERT
Words starting with S Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.46 Entropy (bits)
97 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 98% of evaluated openers
0.49 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SAUCE 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#3,381 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SAUCE ranks #3,381 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
78
3 guesses
898
4 guesses
1,174
5 guesses
182
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
3 vowels
Common:
AESU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
48%
All gray
11%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S M I L Y
S A U C E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SAUCE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

121 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

252
250
163
105
101
96
84
77
62
52
46
45
45
44
41
39
37
34
33
30
30
29
29
29
25
25
23
23
22
21

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SAUCE:

11% chance
Suggested:
TENOR
11% chance
Suggested:
DIRTY
7% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.7% →
TENOR 5.14 bits
10.6% →
DIRTY 5.49 bits
6.9% →
TRAIL 5.30 bits
4.5% →
TARDY 4.09 bits
4.3% →
GOIER 4.38 bits
4.1% →
ALERT 4.71 bits
3.6% →
LUMPY 4.05 bits
3.3% →
SPILT 4.51 bits
2.6% →
GLARE 3.72 bits
2.2% →
SHALT 3.84 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1A1U1C3E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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