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

SEIFS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of seif

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

Use SEIFS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 89.6% 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 SEIFS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SEIFS 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 77.6% of games, misses completely in 22.4%, and leaves about 248 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,326 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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 SEIFS 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.

4.14 Entropy (bits)
248 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SEIFS 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,326 Rank among openers
Opening with SEIFS left 3 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 3.82 average. It ranks #12,326 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
704
4 guesses
1,254
5 guesses
322
6 guesses
25

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
36%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

SEIFS can come back 74 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

533 answers
416 answers
195 answers
162 answers
150 answers
102 answers
94 answers
81 answers
69 answers
61 answers
61 answers
53 answers
30 answers
29 answers
23 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1E1I1F4S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing SEIFS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SEIFS:

22% chance
Suggested:
CORAL
17% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
8% chance
Suggested:
ANTIC

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.4% →
CORAL 5.81 bits
17.4% →
ALTER 5.34 bits
8.2% →
ANTIC 5.11 bits
6.8% →
CLARY 4.84 bits
6.3% →
ROANY 4.75 bits
4.3% →
PARTE 4.73 bits
3.9% →
CLARY 4.52 bits
3.4% →
DINER 4.56 bits
2.9% →
TRASH 4.94 bits
2.6% →
CARTE 3.92 bits

Research on SEIFS

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

Optimal play

Opening with SEIFS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,350 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.01 guesses at best and is rank #6,286 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.82, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, 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).