5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SUMMA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A comprehensive summary of, or treatise on a subject, especially theology or philosophy.

Noun

A culmination or archetypal example.

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 SUMMA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SUMMA 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 72.0% of games, misses completely in 28.0%, and leaves about 333 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,880 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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___A S in the 1st position and A in the 5th position S__M_ S in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _U__A U in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

TONER CARLE TRINE TRONE LEANT TRICE
Words starting with S Words ending with A

First-turn measures

3.80 Entropy (bits)
333 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 15% of evaluated openers
2.15 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SUMMA 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#12,880 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SUMMA ranks #12,880 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
722
4 guesses
1,188
5 guesses
375
6 guesses
25
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ASU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
29%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

67 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

661
505
168
123
105
103
92
81
52
51
39
35
32
30
22
21
20
15
12
12
11
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11
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7
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SUMMA:

28% chance
Suggested:
TONER
21% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
7% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.0% →
TONER 5.95 bits
21.4% →
CARLE 5.41 bits
7.1% →
TRINE 5.16 bits
5.2% →
TRONE 5.38 bits
4.5% →
LEANT 4.66 bits
4.4% →
TRICE 4.60 bits
3.9% →
TROPE 5.33 bits
3.4% →
TARSE 4.57 bits
2.2% →
CARLE 4.57 bits
2.2% →
METRO 4.93 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1U1M3M3A1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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