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

SEDER

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈseɪdə//ˈseɪdɚ/

Noun

The ceremonial meal held on the first night or first two nights of Passover.

Noun

One of the 6 parts into which the Mishnah is divided.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From the Hungarian surname, Americanized from Szeder, from the noun szeder (“cranberry”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it SAYDUR.

Rhymes with NADIR FADER WADER LADER

In a sentence

You'll never guess who showed up at my seder.
© tatoeba.org contributor rul (CC BY 2.0 FR)
The second part of the Seder is when most of the singing happens.
© tatoeba.org contributor rul (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use SEDER in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% 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 SEDER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SEDER 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 79.6% of games, misses completely in 20.4%, and leaves about 172 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,328 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe SEDER 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.

4.83 Entropy (bits)
172 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SEDER 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#6,328 Rank among openers
Opening with SEDER left 2 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 3.69 average. It ranks #6,328 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
866
4 guesses
1,179
5 guesses
227
6 guesses
18

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
41%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

SEDER can come back 106 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

487 answers
222 answers
177 answers
161 answers
101 answers
93 answers
90 answers
84 answers
69 answers
67 answers
59 answers
55 answers
47 answers
45 answers
43 answers
43 answers
39 answers
30 answers
24 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1E1D2E1R1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing SEDER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SEDER:

20% chance
Suggested:
TONAL
9% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
7% chance
Suggested:
ALINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.4% →
TONAL 5.87 bits
9.3% →
TRAIN 5.08 bits
7.4% →
ALINE 5.27 bits
6.8% →
SLANT 4.57 bits
4.2% →
LASSO 4.72 bits
3.9% →
COATE 4.55 bits
3.8% →
POTAE 3.40 bits
3.5% →
DAILY 4.78 bits
2.9% →
PLATE 4.74 bits
2.8% →
ALIEN 4.10 bits

Research on SEDER

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

Optimal play

Opening with SEDER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,099 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 SEDER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SEDER sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).