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

SERON

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

As an opener, it rules out about 96.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of ceroon.

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 SERON performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SERON 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 89.8% of games, misses completely in 10.2%, and leaves about 89 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #865 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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___N S in the 1st position and N in the 5th position S__O_ S in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _E__N E in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SERON 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.

5.50 Entropy (bits)
89 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 98% of evaluated openers
0.45 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SERON 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#865 Rank among openers
Opening with SERON left 1 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 3.60 average. It ranks #865 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
88
3 guesses
1,003
4 guesses
1,055
5 guesses
187
6 guesses
20
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
2 vowels
Common:
ENORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
38%
All gray
10%

Feedback distribution

SERON can come back 126 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

241 answers
181 answers
164 answers
129 answers
116 answers
104 answers
86 answers
82 answers
66 answers
66 answers
58 answers
53 answers
51 answers
50 answers
48 answers
48 answers
39 answers
38 answers
36 answers
33 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
24 answers
23 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1E1R1O1N1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

PLAIT TABLE CADET LOATH GIANT TRAIL

Strategy after playing SERON

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SERON:

10% chance
Suggested:
PLAIT
8% chance
Suggested:
TABLE
7% chance
Suggested:
CADET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.2% →
PLAIT 5.59 bits
7.6% →
TABLE 5.46 bits
6.9% →
CADET 4.54 bits
5.4% →
LOATH 4.87 bits
4.9% →
GIANT 5.00 bits
4.4% →
TRAIL 5.18 bits
3.6% →
SHALT 4.67 bits
3.5% →
THALE 4.71 bits
2.8% →
PALSY 4.56 bits
2.8% →
PLATE 4.85 bits

Research on SERON

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

Optimal play

Opening with SERON, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #535 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.75 guesses at best and is rank #376 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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 SEHRUHN. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SERON sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).