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

SUERS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.0% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of suer

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 SUERS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SUERS 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 82.0% of games, misses completely in 18.0%, and leaves about 191 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,113 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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 SUERS 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.

4.50 Entropy (bits)
191 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 52% of evaluated openers
1.45 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SUERS 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.75 Spread of game lengths
#11,113 Rank among openers
Opening with SUERS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.75 means those games clustered within about 0.75 of a guess of the 3.79 average. It ranks #11,113 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
770
4 guesses
1,191
5 guesses
306
6 guesses
33
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:
ERSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
34%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

SUERS can come back 80 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

428 answers
334 answers
237 answers
215 answers
123 answers
84 answers
81 answers
65 answers
58 answers
55 answers
48 answers
47 answers
40 answers
38 answers
35 answers
33 answers
31 answers
28 answers
28 answers
27 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1U1E1R1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing SUERS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SUERS:

18% chance
Suggested:
TALON
14% chance
Suggested:
LIANE
10% chance
Suggested:
AINEE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.0%
TALON 5.85 bits
14.1%
LIANE 5.37 bits
10.0%
AINEE 4.33 bits
9.1%
TRAIN 5.09 bits
5.2%
COALY 4.64 bits
3.5%
COUNT 4.65 bits
3.4%
MEALY 3.63 bits
2.7%
ELECT 4.42 bits
2.4%
PLATE 4.18 bits
2.3%
POSIT 4.47 bits

Research on SUERS

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

Optimal play

Opening with SUERS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,233 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 SUERS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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

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

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SUERS is a kind of admirer or plaintiff.

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).