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SIRED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of sire

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 SIRED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SIRED 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 87.4% of games, misses completely in 12.6%, and leaves about 101 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #979 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.
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Useful pattern pages

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

S___D S in the 1st position and D in the 5th position S__E_ S in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__D I in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position SI_ED S in the 1st position, I in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SIRED 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.

5.41 Entropy (bits)
101 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 97% of evaluated openers
0.54 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SIRED 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
99.87% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#979 Rank among openers
Opening with SIRED left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.60 average. It ranks #979 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
83
3 guesses
970
4 guesses
1,114
5 guesses
176
6 guesses
8
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:
EIRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
42%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

SIRED can come back 123 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

299 answers
202 answers
133 answers
120 answers
112 answers
101 answers
94 answers
72 answers
68 answers
66 answers
60 answers
57 answers
57 answers
55 answers
51 answers
50 answers
47 answers
42 answers
31 answers
28 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1I1R1E1D2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

COALY OLATE ACTOR ANTIC SLANT TRACE

Strategy after playing SIRED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SIRED:

13% chance
Suggested:
COALY
9% chance
Suggested:
OLATE
6% chance
Suggested:
ACTOR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.6% →
COALY 5.74 bits
8.5% →
OLATE 5.37 bits
5.6% →
ACTOR 4.69 bits
5.1% →
ANTIC 5.20 bits
4.7% →
SLANT 4.53 bits
4.3% →
TRACE 4.85 bits
4.0% →
OLATE 3.31 bits
3.0% →
EATEN 4.30 bits
2.9% →
LASSO 4.68 bits
2.8% →
FILTH 4.00 bits

Research on SIRED

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

Optimal play

Opening with SIRED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.60 guesses and ranks #157 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 SIRED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.60, 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

One syllable Say it SYRD. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SIRED is a kind of lord or root.

Synonyms get father mother generate

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SIRED sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).