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

SEISE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To vest ownership of an estate in land (to someone).

Verb

To put in possession.

Alternative forms: seize

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 SEISE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SEISE 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 74.9% of games, misses completely in 25.1%, and leaves about 233 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,140 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 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 SEISE 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.

4.33 Entropy (bits)
233 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 40% of evaluated openers
1.62 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SEISE 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
99.75% Solved within six
0.75 Spread of game lengths
#13,140 Rank among openers
Opening with SEISE left 6 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.75 means those games clustered within about 0.75 of a guess of the 3.85 average. It ranks #13,140 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
684
4 guesses
1,224
5 guesses
354
6 guesses
37
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

3/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
49%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

SEISE can come back 76 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

596 answers
221 answers
216 answers
163 answers
158 answers
123 answers
109 answers
61 answers
49 answers
46 answers
43 answers
43 answers
37 answers
35 answers
35 answers
31 answers
31 answers
29 answers
25 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1E1I1S1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Strategy after playing SEISE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SEISE:

25% chance
Suggested:
CORAL
9% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
9% chance
Suggested:
ANTIC

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.1%
CORAL 5.80 bits
9.3%
ALTER 5.24 bits
9.1%
ANTIC 5.05 bits
6.9%
COALY 4.47 bits
6.7%
ROANY 4.72 bits
5.2%
CLARY 5.07 bits
4.6%
CLARY 4.54 bits
2.6%
DINER 4.46 bits
2.1%
PARTE 3.80 bits
1.9%
CARTE 3.40 bits

Research on SEISE

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

Optimal play

Opening with SEISE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,289 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 SEISE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.85; proven optimal play reaches 3.84. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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

One syllable Say it SYS. 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.