SIEGE
Yes, SIEGE was the Wordle answer on January 4, 2022 (Wordle #199).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /siːd͡ʒ/[sɪi̯d͡ʒ]
- Noun
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Military action.
- Noun
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A seat.
- Verb
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To assault or blockade a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition; to besiege.
Alternative forms: syege
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English sege, from Old French sege, siege, seige (modern French siège), from Vulgar Latin *sēdicum, from Latin sēdicŭlum, sēdēcula (“small seat”), from Latin sēdēs (“seat”).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it SEEJ.
Rhymes with LIEGE
In a sentence
The city is under siege.
The city was under siege.
Use SIEGE in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: January 4, 2022 (#199).
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See what the public sample says →How SIEGE performs as a guess
SIEGE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 78.6% of games, misses completely in 21.4%, and leaves about 189 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,328 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe SIEGE 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How SIEGE 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches SIEGE in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
SIEGE can come back 90 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for SIEGE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing SIEGE
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to SIEGE.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing SIEGE:
Research on SIEGE
Game-tree analysis and word research for SIEGE, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with SIEGE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,604 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 3.92 guesses at best and is rank #4,618 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- SIEGE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 9 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.2 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).