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SEPIA

Yes, SEPIA was the Wordle answer on June 14, 2026 (Wordle #1821).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈsiːpiə/

Noun

A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish.

Noun

A dark, slightly reddish, brown colour.

Adjective

Of a dark reddish-brown colour.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: June 14, 2026 (#1821).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 14, 2026 (#1821).

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

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How SEPIA performs as a guess

SEPIA is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 89.8% of games, misses completely in 10.2%, and leaves about 114 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,692 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

S___A S in the 1st position and A in the 5th position S__I_ S in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _E__A E in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in SEPIA.

First-turn measures

All four describe SEPIA 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.

5.17 Entropy (bits)
114 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 91% of evaluated openers
0.78 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SEPIA 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#3,692 Rank among openers
Opening with SEPIA left 2 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 3.65 average. It ranks #3,692 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
80
3 guesses
908
4 guesses
1,136
5 guesses
210
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AEIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
35%
All gray
10%

Example solver route

R O A T E
L A D E N
S E P I A

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SEPIA in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SEPIA can come back 107 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

241 answers
241 answers
212 answers
173 answers
143 answers
116 answers
99 answers
68 answers
62 answers
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17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1E1P3I1A1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

TRULY TALON TONER CARLE GLINT DINER

Strategy after playing SEPIA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SEPIA:

10% chance
Suggested:
TRULY
10% chance
Suggested:
TALON
9% chance
Suggested:
TONER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.2% →
TRULY 5.39 bits
10.2% →
TALON 5.17 bits
8.9% →
TONER 5.24 bits
7.3% →
CARLE 4.79 bits
6.0% →
GLINT 4.94 bits
4.9% →
DINER 4.81 bits
4.2% →
DOREE 4.29 bits
2.9% →
SHUNT 4.32 bits
2.6% →
CLARY 4.08 bits
2.2% →
CLARY 4.20 bits

Research on SEPIA

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

Optimal play

Opening with SEPIA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,784 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 SEPIA can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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

Three syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it SEEPEEUH.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SEPIA is a kind of brown or pigment.

Synonyms mahogany

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SEPIA sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.3 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).