5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

SEPOY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈsiːˌpɔɪ//sɪˈpɔɪ/

Noun

The holder of an infantry enlisted rank equivalent to private in other countries.

Noun

A native soldier of the East Indies, employed in the service of a European colonial power, notably the British India army (first under the British-chartered East India Company, later in the crown colony), but also France and Portugal.

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 SEPOY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SEPOY 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 86.6% of games, misses completely in 13.4%, and leaves about 155 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,954 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

S___Y S in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position S__O_ S in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _E__Y E in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE TRAIL TONAL DAILY RONTE SLANT
Words starting with S Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.81 Entropy (bits)
155 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 72% of evaluated openers
1.14 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SEPOY 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#6,954 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SEPOY ranks #6,954 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
830
4 guesses
1,205
5 guesses
227
6 guesses
21
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
43%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

102 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

371
316
191
128
125
114
106
79
74
57
54
52
46
44
38
32
30
29
26
24
22
22
20
20
19
17
15
14
14
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SEPOY:

16% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
13% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
8% chance
Suggested:
TONAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.7% →
RAILE 5.42 bits
13.4% →
TRAIL 6.12 bits
8.1% →
TONAL 5.24 bits
5.4% →
DAILY 4.19 bits
5.3% →
RAILE 4.55 bits
4.8% →
RONTE 4.40 bits
4.5% →
SLANT 4.68 bits
3.4% →
THALE 4.41 bits
3.1% →
TALER 4.56 bits
2.4% →
TRASH 4.41 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1E1P3O1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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