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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

SUAVE

Yes, SUAVE was the Wordle answer on February 16, 2025 (Wordle #1338).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /swɑːv//swɑv//sweɪv/

Adjective

Of a person, charming, though often in a manner that is insincere or sophisticated.

“a man with a suave demeanor”

Adjective

Displaying smoothness and sophistication.

“suave excellence”

Noun

sweet-talk

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: February 16, 2025 (#1338).

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

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How SUAVE performs as a guess

SUAVE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 86.7% of games, misses completely in 13.3%, and leaves about 134 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,668 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

S___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__V_ S in the 1st position and V in the 4th position _U__E U in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

CRONY DETER CARAT ALTER GRICE CRINE
Words starting with S Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.94 Entropy (bits)
134 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 80% of evaluated openers
1.01 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SUAVE 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
99.8% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#8,668 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SUAVE ranks #8,668 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
779
4 guesses
1,241
5 guesses
235
6 guesses
27
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
3 vowels
Common:
AESU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
44%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
S U A V E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SUAVE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

95 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

313
269
242
130
110
93
91
90
88
54
47
43
42
42
40
40
35
33
33
32
27
27
24
24
24
22
22
21
20
19

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SUAVE:

13% chance
Suggested:
CRONY
11% chance
Suggested:
DETER
10% chance
Suggested:
CARAT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.3% →
CRONY 5.57 bits
11.4% →
DETER 5.43 bits
10.3% →
CARAT 5.07 bits
5.5% →
ALTER 4.60 bits
4.7% →
GRICE 4.31 bits
3.9% →
CRINE 4.28 bits
3.9% →
SPILT 4.45 bits
3.8% →
COURT 4.91 bits
3.7% →
CURLY 3.76 bits
2.3% →
SHALT 3.31 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1U1A1V4E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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