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

SENAS

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

No dictionary definition for SENAS is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 SENAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SENAS 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 84.9% of games, misses completely in 15.1%, and leaves about 154 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,585 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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 SENAS 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.

4.72 Entropy (bits)
154 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 67% of evaluated openers
1.22 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SENAS 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#9,585 Rank among openers
Opening with SENAS left 5 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 3.75 average. It ranks #9,585 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
775
4 guesses
1,236
5 guesses
253
6 guesses
28
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AENS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
36%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

SENAS can come back 79 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

359 answers
293 answers
241 answers
150 answers
107 answers
104 answers
95 answers
76 answers
69 answers
69 answers
56 answers
54 answers
47 answers
44 answers
41 answers
37 answers
36 answers
35 answers
31 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
27 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1E1N1A1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing SENAS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SENAS:

15% chance
Suggested:
MOULT
12% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
10% chance
Suggested:
CAROL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.1%
MOULT 5.53 bits
12.3%
TOILE 5.31 bits
10.2%
CAROL 5.06 bits
6.3%
ALTER 4.64 bits
4.5%
IRONY 4.88 bits
4.4%
DETER 4.53 bits
4.0%
SPILT 4.49 bits
3.2%
TOILE 4.47 bits
2.9%
TRAIN 4.50 bits
2.9%
PLIER 4.43 bits

Research on SENAS

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

Optimal play

Opening with SENAS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,038 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 SENAS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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 SEENUHS. 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.