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

SUCCI

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of succus

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

Use SUCCI in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 86.2% 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 SUCCI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SUCCI 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 69.2% of games, misses completely in 30.8%, and leaves about 329 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,351 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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 SUCCI 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.

3.86 Entropy (bits)
329 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SUCCI 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#11,351 Rank among openers
Opening with SUCCI left 4 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 3.79 average. It ranks #11,351 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
747
4 guesses
1,257
5 guesses
284
6 guesses
25

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ISU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
30%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

SUCCI can come back 68 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

734 answers
370 answers
189 answers
128 answers
121 answers
102 answers
98 answers
77 answers
65 answers
49 answers
46 answers
40 answers
28 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
14 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1U1C3C3I1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing SUCCI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SUCCI:

31% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
16% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
8% chance
Suggested:
PARTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.8% →
ALTER 6.07 bits
15.5% →
TRONE 5.41 bits
7.9% →
PARTE 5.40 bits
5.4% →
TRONE 5.33 bits
5.1% →
TRAPE 5.52 bits
4.3% →
ORATE 5.22 bits
4.1% →
MORNE 4.35 bits
3.2% →
TRINE 4.43 bits
2.7% →
THALE 4.85 bits
2.1% →
ROAST 4.33 bits

Research on SUCCI

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

Optimal play

Opening with SUCCI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.85 guesses and ranks #12,653 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.01 guesses at best and is rank #6,332 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.85, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SUCCI 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).