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

SORER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

comparative form of sore: more sore

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 SORER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SORER 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 84.5% of games, misses completely in 15.5%, and leaves about 141 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,640 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

S___R S in the 1st position and R in the 5th position S__E_ S in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__R O in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SORER 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.

4.96 Entropy (bits)
141 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 81% of evaluated openers
0.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SORER 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#8,640 Rank among openers
Opening with SORER left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,640 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
810
4 guesses
1,199
5 guesses
263
6 guesses
20
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:
EORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
44%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

SORER can come back 96 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

368 answers
289 answers
128 answers
126 answers
119 answers
118 answers
107 answers
79 answers
78 answers
74 answers
73 answers
65 answers
54 answers
50 answers
41 answers
30 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1O1R1E1R1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Try next

PAINT DEALT TRAIN SLANT TRACE HOTLY

Strategy after playing SORER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SORER:

16% chance
Suggested:
PAINT
12% chance
Suggested:
DEALT
5% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.5% →
PAINT 5.69 bits
12.2% →
DEALT 5.53 bits
5.4% →
TRAIN 5.04 bits
5.3% →
SLANT 4.70 bits
5.0% →
TRACE 4.79 bits
5.0% →
HOTLY 3.84 bits
4.5% →
TALON 5.01 bits
3.3% →
ALIEN 4.33 bits
3.3% →
LEANT 3.55 bits
3.1% →
SAIST 4.59 bits

Research on SORER

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

Optimal play

Opening with SORER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,592 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 SORER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73; proven optimal play reaches 3.71. 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it SAWRUR. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SORER is a kind of infection.

Synonyms mad raw sensitive painful tender ANGRY

Opposites pleasant painless

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SORER 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), 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).