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

SIVER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈsɪvə(ɹ)/

Verb

To simmer.

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 SIVER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SIVER 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 85.1% of games, misses completely in 14.9%, and leaves about 134 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,310 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe SIVER 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.

4.99 Entropy (bits)
134 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 83% of evaluated openers
0.96 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SIVER 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#6,310 Rank among openers
Opening with SIVER left 1 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 3.69 average. It ranks #6,310 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
76
3 guesses
850
4 guesses
1,171
5 guesses
238
6 guesses
18
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)
85%
Green tile
37%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

SIVER can come back 107 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

354 answers
234 answers
195 answers
133 answers
132 answers
121 answers
84 answers
75 answers
74 answers
70 answers
65 answers
61 answers
61 answers
56 answers
45 answers
38 answers
30 answers
30 answers
28 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1I1V4E1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing SIVER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SIVER:

15% chance
Suggested:
TONAL
10% chance
Suggested:
DEALT
8% chance
Suggested:
ACORN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.9%
TONAL 5.69 bits
9.9%
DEALT 5.51 bits
8.2%
ACORN 4.86 bits
5.6%
ANTIC 5.15 bits
5.6%
CRATE 4.82 bits
5.1%
SLANT 4.55 bits
3.5%
POTAE 3.41 bits
3.2%
MINTY 3.76 bits
3.1%
EATEN 4.30 bits
2.9%
LASSO 4.64 bits

Research on SIVER

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

Optimal play

Opening with SIVER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,970 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 SIVER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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 SYVUR.

Rhymes with DIVER

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SIVER sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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).