5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SEDUM

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Any of various succulent plants, of the genus Sedum, native to temperate zones; the stonecrop.

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How SEDUM performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SEDUM 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 80.1% of games, misses completely in 19.9%, and leaves about 194 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,632 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___M S in the 1st position and M in the 5th position S__U_ S in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _E__M E in the 2nd position and M in the 5th position

Try next

TALON ALTER SLANT TRULY LEARE PARTE
Words starting with S Words ending with M

First-turn measures

4.56 Entropy (bits)
194 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 56% of evaluated openers
1.39 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SEDUM 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
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#5,632 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SEDUM ranks #5,632 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
830
4 guesses
1,260
5 guesses
177
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ESU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
32%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

93 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

470
357
140
127
127
101
94
87
77
70
61
59
54
35
33
33
26
25
22
22
22
18
18
17
16
12
11
11
11
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SEDUM:

20% chance
Suggested:
TALON
15% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
6% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.9% →
TALON 5.99 bits
15.1% →
ALTER 5.36 bits
5.9% →
SLANT 4.68 bits
5.4% →
TRULY 4.80 bits
5.4% →
LEARE 4.59 bits
4.3% →
PARTE 4.56 bits
4.0% →
DRAIN 5.33 bits
3.7% →
ROAST 4.86 bits
3.3% →
ROANY 4.83 bits
3.0% →
ARENE 4.57 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1E1D2U1M3
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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