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

SUENT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Alternative spelling of suant (“even; smooth”)

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 SUENT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SUENT 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 85.8% of games, misses completely in 14.2%, and leaves about 131 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #395 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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First-turn measures

All four describe SUENT 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.

5.28 Entropy (bits)
131 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 94% of evaluated openers
0.67 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SUENT 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#395 Rank among openers
Opening with SUENT left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.58 average. It ranks #395 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
80
3 guesses
1,029
4 guesses
1,057
5 guesses
169
6 guesses
15
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENSTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
40%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

SUENT can come back 124 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

340 answers
336 answers
107 answers
102 answers
101 answers
94 answers
82 answers
69 answers
59 answers
55 answers
54 answers
50 answers
47 answers
46 answers
41 answers
37 answers
35 answers
28 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1U1E1N1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing SUENT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SUENT:

14% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
14% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
5% chance
Suggested:
TOTAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.3%
RAILE 5.43 bits
14.2%
CAROL 6.04 bits
4.5%
TOTAL 4.90 bits
4.3%
CABIN 4.97 bits
4.3%
AINEE 4.52 bits
4.0%
TARTE 4.77 bits
3.5%
CLARY 4.72 bits
2.9%
CLARY 4.27 bits
2.5%
CRASS 4.76 bits
2.3%
COALY 4.42 bits

Research on SUENT

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

Optimal play

Opening with SUENT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #985 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 SUENT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it SWEHNT. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.