5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

SETER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of saeter.

Noun

A natural terrace in solid rock, formed by waves, that marks the former position of a shoreline.

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 SETER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SETER 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 83.0% of games, misses completely in 17.0%, and leaves about 135 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,431 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___R S in the 1st position and R in the 5th position S__E_ S in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _E__R E in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position SE_ER S in the 1st position, E in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SETER 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.

5.12 Entropy (bits)
135 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 89% of evaluated openers
0.83 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SETER 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#4,431 Rank among openers
Opening with SETER left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,431 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
78
3 guesses
900
4 guesses
1,137
5 guesses
217
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ERST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
42%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

SETER can come back 115 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

404 answers
206 answers
161 answers
141 answers
116 answers
84 answers
84 answers
73 answers
71 answers
64 answers
59 answers
55 answers
48 answers
47 answers
45 answers
40 answers
38 answers
36 answers
31 answers
30 answers
28 answers
28 answers
26 answers
23 answers
23 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1E1T1E1R1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Try next

COALY ALINE TAINT GRADE AMISS TRAIT

Strategy after playing SETER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SETER:

17% chance
Suggested:
COALY
9% chance
Suggested:
COALY
7% chance
Suggested:
ALINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.0% →
COALY 5.71 bits
8.7% →
COALY 5.13 bits
6.8% →
ALINE 5.41 bits
5.9% →
TAINT 5.12 bits
4.9% →
COALY 4.78 bits
3.5% →
COALY 3.46 bits
3.5% →
GRADE 4.22 bits
3.1% →
AMISS 4.76 bits
3.0% →
TRAIT 4.59 bits
2.7% →
LADEN 4.48 bits

Research on SETER

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

Optimal play

Opening with SETER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,802 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 SETER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it SEETUR. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SETER is a kind of collection or abstraction.

Synonyms do PLACE put lot READY position

Opposites rise up moving soft

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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0).