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SEDAN

Yes, SEDAN was the Wordle answer on January 11, 2023 (Wordle #571).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /səˈdæn/

Noun

An enclosed windowed chair suitable for a single occupant, carried by at least two porters, in equal numbers in front and behind, using wooden rails that passed through metal brackets on the sides of the chair.

Noun

An automobile designed in a configuration with separate compartments for engine space, driver/passenger space, and luggage or (limited) cargo space.

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: January 11, 2023 (#571).

See the full page for that puzzle: January 11, 2023 (#571).

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How SEDAN performs as a guess

SEDAN 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 88.1% of games, misses completely in 11.9%, and leaves about 107 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #665 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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___N S in the 1st position and N in the 5th position S__A_ S in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _E__N E in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SEDAN 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.

5.29 Entropy (bits)
107 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 94% of evaluated openers
0.66 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SEDAN 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#665 Rank among openers
Opening with SEDAN left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.59 average. It ranks #665 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
85
3 guesses
964
4 guesses
1,149
5 guesses
132
6 guesses
20
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:
AENS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
36%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SEDAN in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SEDAN can come back 114 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

282 answers
225 answers
194 answers
132 answers
106 answers
95 answers
76 answers
73 answers
64 answers
62 answers
60 answers
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49 answers
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48 answers
47 answers
35 answers
28 answers
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25 answers
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23 answers
22 answers
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20 answers
20 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1E1D2A1N1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

COURT TOILE CAROL ALTER COUNT SPILT

Strategy after playing SEDAN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SEDAN:

12% chance
Suggested:
COURT
9% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
8% chance
Suggested:
CAROL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.9% →
COURT 5.82 bits
9.5% →
TOILE 5.29 bits
8.2% →
CAROL 5.18 bits
5.6% →
ALTER 4.64 bits
4.5% →
COUNT 5.05 bits
4.0% →
SPILT 4.53 bits
3.2% →
REBEL 4.40 bits
3.1% →
HOIST 4.77 bits
2.7% →
LURID 4.65 bits
2.6% →
PORTE 4.42 bits

Research on SEDAN

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

Optimal play

Opening with SEDAN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #917 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 SEDAN can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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 second syllable Say it SUHDAN.

Rhymes with BEGAN JAPAN SUDAN DIANE MORAN

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SEDAN is a kind of car or litter.

Synonyms saloon

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SEDAN sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.6 of 5).

In a sentence

Tom drives a big sedan.
© tatoeba.org contributor Blabla (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Tom drives a black sedan.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (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).