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

SOLEI

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of soleus

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use SOLEI in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 96.3% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How SOLEI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SOLEI 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 91.8% of games, misses completely in 8.2%, and leaves about 89 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,433 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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 SOLEI 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.

5.40 Entropy (bits)
89 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SOLEI 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#2,433 Rank among openers
Opening with SOLEI left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,433 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
79
3 guesses
934
4 guesses
1,141
5 guesses
181
6 guesses
17

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EILOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
92%
Green tile
41%
All gray
8%

Feedback distribution

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

214 answers
195 answers
166 answers
112 answers
102 answers
102 answers
97 answers
94 answers
83 answers
76 answers
71 answers
57 answers
53 answers
51 answers
49 answers
43 answers
42 answers
42 answers
40 answers
39 answers
37 answers
37 answers
29 answers
29 answers
25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
21 answers
17 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1O1L1E1I1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing SOLEI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SOLEI:

9% chance
Suggested:
TRACE
8% chance
Suggested:
GRANT
7% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.0% →
TRACE 5.66 bits
8.2% →
GRANT 5.37 bits
7.0% →
TRAIN 5.20 bits
4.7% →
APRON 4.90 bits
4.3% →
TAPER 4.41 bits
4.3% →
NORTH 4.20 bits
4.1% →
REATE 4.72 bits
3.9% →
TRINE 4.75 bits
3.5% →
PLANT 4.47 bits
3.2% →
SCANT 4.52 bits

Research on SOLEI

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

Optimal play

Opening with SOLEI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,552 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 SOLEI can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).