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

SIRES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of sire

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative 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 SIRES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SIRES 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 84.7% of games, misses completely in 15.3%, and leaves about 142 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,752 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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___S S in the 1st position and S in the 5th position S__E_ S in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position SI_ES S in the 1st position, I in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SIRES 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.

4.83 Entropy (bits)
142 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 73% of evaluated openers
1.12 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SIRES 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
99.87% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#9,752 Rank among openers
Opening with SIRES left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #9,752 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
810
4 guesses
1,168
5 guesses
296
6 guesses
24
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:
EIRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
41%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

SIRES can come back 87 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

363 answers
257 answers
172 answers
144 answers
126 answers
114 answers
109 answers
89 answers
86 answers
71 answers
70 answers
63 answers
61 answers
53 answers
49 answers
43 answers
34 answers
30 answers
28 answers
26 answers
23 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1I1R1E1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Try next

COALY DEALT ACORN ANTIC TRACE SLANT

Strategy after playing SIRES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SIRES:

15% chance
Suggested:
COALY
11% chance
Suggested:
DEALT
7% chance
Suggested:
ACORN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.3% →
COALY 5.67 bits
10.8% →
DEALT 5.48 bits
7.2% →
ACORN 4.89 bits
6.1% →
ANTIC 5.17 bits
5.3% →
TRACE 4.84 bits
4.8% →
SLANT 4.56 bits
4.6% →
OLATE 3.30 bits
3.7% →
EATEN 4.23 bits
3.6% →
MINTY 3.72 bits
3.0% →
PRINT 4.21 bits

Research on SIRES

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

Optimal play

Opening with SIRES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,069 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 SIRES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76; proven optimal play reaches 3.75. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 SYRZ.

Rhymes with VIRES MIRES

Related meanings

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

Synonyms get father mother generate

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SIRES 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); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).