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SAVOR

Yes, SAVOR was the Wordle answer on June 25, 2024 (Wordle #1102).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of savour.

Verb

Alternative spelling of savour.

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: June 25, 2024 (#1102).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 25, 2024 (#1102).

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How SAVOR performs as a guess

SAVOR is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 84.1% of games, misses completely in 15.9%, and leaves about 136 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,474 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___R S in the 1st position and R in the 5th position S__O_ S in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _A__R A in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SAVOR 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.

4.98 Entropy (bits)
136 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 82% of evaluated openers
0.97 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SAVOR 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#5,474 Rank among openers
Opening with SAVOR left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,474 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
878
4 guesses
1,174
5 guesses
218
6 guesses
17
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
38%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
A R M O R
F A L E S
S A V O R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SAVOR in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SAVOR can come back 105 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

377 answers
180 answers
179 answers
170 answers
128 answers
125 answers
122 answers
91 answers
73 answers
60 answers
59 answers
51 answers
42 answers
41 answers
39 answers
36 answers
32 answers
30 answers
30 answers
30 answers
29 answers
27 answers
22 answers
22 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1A1V4O1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

CLINE PLANE TUILE TRICE TRADE CONTE

Strategy after playing SAVOR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SAVOR:

16% chance
Suggested:
CLINE
8% chance
Suggested:
PLANE
8% chance
Suggested:
TUILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.9% →
CLINE 5.94 bits
7.6% →
PLANE 5.38 bits
7.5% →
TUILE 4.73 bits
7.2% →
TRICE 5.38 bits
5.4% →
CLINE 4.46 bits
5.3% →
TRADE 4.69 bits
5.1% →
TUILE 4.95 bits
3.8% →
CONTE 4.31 bits
3.1% →
THALE 4.33 bits
2.5% →
TUILE 3.56 bits

Research on SAVOR

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

Optimal play

Opening with SAVOR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,368 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 SAVOR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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 SAYVUR.

Rhymes with FAVOR SAVER WAVER LAVER RAVER

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SAVOR is a kind of taste or feel.

Synonyms ENJOY TASTE flavor flavour SMACK tang

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SAVOR sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 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 taste (4.2 of 5).

In a sentence

You should savor this moment.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I love to savor a piece of cake.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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).