SEHRI
SEHRI is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.
As an opener, it rules out about 95.1% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
- Noun
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Alternative form of sahari.
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
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
NoThe solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.
Past Wordle answer
Not used yetNo past answer date found.
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See what the public sample says →How SEHRI performs as a guess
Wordle accepts SEHRI 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 88.1% of games, misses completely in 11.9%, and leaves about 116 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,607 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe SEHRI 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How SEHRI 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Feedback distribution
SEHRI can come back 93 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for SEHRI; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing SEHRI
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SEHRI.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing SEHRI:
Research on SEHRI
Game-tree analysis and word research for SEHRI, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with SEHRI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,919 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 SEHRI can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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 SEHREE. Estimated pronunciation
This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.