5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SEWEN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

past participle of sew

Noun

A British trout usually regarded as a variety (var. Cambricus) of the salmon trout.

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 SEWEN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SEWEN 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 74.6% of games, misses completely in 25.4%, and leaves about 233 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,013 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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___N S in the 1st position and N in the 5th position S__E_ S in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _E__N E in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL GRATE GIANT ROAST LAIRY CLARY
Words starting with S Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.40 Entropy (bits)
233 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 45% of evaluated openers
1.55 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SEWEN 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#10,013 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SEWEN ranks #10,013 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
739
4 guesses
1,260
5 guesses
269
6 guesses
20
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
40%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

92 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

599
243
197
153
133
123
110
71
65
58
47
43
41
29
25
24
22
20
20
18
16
16
15
14
14
13
13
10
10
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SEWEN:

25% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
10% chance
Suggested:
GRATE
8% chance
Suggested:
GIANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.4% →
CAROL 5.92 bits
10.3% →
GRATE 5.21 bits
8.4% →
GIANT 5.08 bits
6.5% →
ROAST 4.59 bits
5.6% →
LAIRY 4.32 bits
5.2% →
ROAST 4.93 bits
4.7% →
CLARY 5.04 bits
3.0% →
PLATE 4.68 bits
2.8% →
LIANE 4.48 bits
2.5% →
ALURE 4.24 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1E1W4E1N1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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