5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SOWED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /səʊd//soʊd/

Verb

simple past and past participle of sow

“The farmer sowed the field with corn.”

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 SOWED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SOWED 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 82.5% of games, misses completely in 17.5%, and leaves about 170 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,497 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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.

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 _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

CAIRN LEARE ACTOR LATER SLANT CLARY
Words starting with S Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.72 Entropy (bits)
170 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 66% of evaluated openers
1.23 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SOWED 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#7,497 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SOWED ranks #7,497 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
800
4 guesses
1,260
5 guesses
217
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
40%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

93 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

412
330
157
151
138
116
90
76
73
63
59
58
42
33
33
30
23
23
22
19
18
18
17
17
17
16
16
16
15
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SOWED:

17% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN
14% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
7% chance
Suggested:
ACTOR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.5% →
CAIRN 5.90 bits
14.0% →
LEARE 5.52 bits
6.7% →
ACTOR 5.10 bits
6.4% →
LATER 4.55 bits
5.9% →
SLANT 4.66 bits
4.9% →
CLARY 4.53 bits
3.8% →
TRASH 4.61 bits
3.2% →
PLATE 4.55 bits
3.1% →
RAILE 4.54 bits
2.7% →
URATE 4.49 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1O1W4E1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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