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

SEAME

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

No dictionary definition for SEAME is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use SEAME in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.6% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How SEAME performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SEAME 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 82.1% of games, misses completely in 17.9%, and leaves about 152 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,137 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe SEAME 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.

4.93 Entropy (bits)
152 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SEAME 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
99.75% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#8,137 Rank among openers
Opening with SEAME left 6 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #8,137 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
70
3 guesses
788
4 guesses
1,233
5 guesses
236
6 guesses
21

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
46%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

SEAME can come back 97 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

426 answers
255 answers
177 answers
128 answers
120 answers
94 answers
90 answers
72 answers
68 answers
63 answers
48 answers
45 answers
42 answers
41 answers
36 answers
34 answers
33 answers
32 answers
30 answers
29 answers
28 answers
28 answers
26 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
19 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1E1A1M3E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing SEAME

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SEAME:

18% chance
Suggested:
COUNT
11% chance
Suggested:
TALON
7% chance
Suggested:
OLDER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.9% →
COUNT 5.74 bits
10.7% →
TALON 5.23 bits
7.4% →
OLDER 4.88 bits
5.4% →
SNOUT 4.34 bits
5.0% →
RIONE 4.28 bits
3.9% →
CRINE 4.19 bits
3.8% →
RATEL 4.47 bits
3.0% →
HOIST 4.83 bits
2.9% →
BERTH 4.02 bits
2.6% →
MOUTH 4.72 bits

Research on SEAME

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

Optimal play

Opening with SEAME, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,239 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.87 guesses at best and is rank #3,565 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).