5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

SAUNA

Yes, SAUNA was the Wordle answer on December 23, 2024 (Wordle #1283).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈsɔː.nə//ˈsaʊ.nə//ˈsɑː.nə/

Noun

A room or a house designed for heat sessions.

“The hotel has a sauna in the basement.”

Noun

The act of using a sauna.

“John had a sauna after his swim.”

Verb

To use a sauna.

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: December 23, 2024 (#1283).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How SAUNA performs as a guess

SAUNA 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 76.6% of games, misses completely in 23.4%, and leaves about 208 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,870 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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__N_ S in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _A__A A in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE TRACE TRICE LINER TRIPE DROLE
Words starting with S Words ending with A

First-turn measures

4.47 Entropy (bits)
208 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 50% of evaluated openers
1.48 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SAUNA 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#7,870 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SAUNA ranks #7,870 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
853
4 guesses
1,191
5 guesses
236
6 guesses
24
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
3 vowels
Common:
ANSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
39%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

R O A T E
N A S A L
S A U N A

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SAUNA in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

81 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

551
258
151
144
139
136
89
82
66
63
51
44
43
43
38
34
29
27
25
23
22
22
20
19
16
15
12
12
11
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SAUNA:

23% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
11% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
6% chance
Suggested:
TRICE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.4% →
TOILE 5.94 bits
10.9% →
TRACE 5.52 bits
6.4% →
TRICE 4.74 bits
6.1% →
LINER 5.08 bits
5.9% →
TRIPE 5.10 bits
5.8% →
DROLE 4.65 bits
3.8% →
TROPE 5.28 bits
3.5% →
THALE 4.42 bits
2.8% →
CLOTE 5.04 bits
2.7% →
TRODE 4.60 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1A1U1N1A1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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