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

SURAT

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of sura (“A chapter of the Qur'an”).

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

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it SURAHT.

Rhymes with YACHT SQUAT LOTTE ALLOT STOTT

In a sentence

I studied Gujarati during my time in Surat.
© tatoeba.org contributor sabretou (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use SURAT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 95.4% 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 SURAT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SURAT 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 86.7% of games, misses completely in 13.3%, and leaves about 110 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #193 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.57 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 SURAT 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.

5.43 Entropy (bits)
110 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SURAT 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.

3.57 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#193 Rank among openers
Opening with SURAT left 2 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 3.57 average. It ranks #193 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
79
3 guesses
1,064
4 guesses
1,027
5 guesses
162
6 guesses
20

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ARSTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
41%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

SURAT can come back 132 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

317 answers
219 answers
203 answers
133 answers
95 answers
87 answers
70 answers
60 answers
57 answers
52 answers
51 answers
43 answers
42 answers
41 answers
39 answers
39 answers
36 answers
33 answers
30 answers
30 answers
28 answers
27 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1U1R1A1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing SURAT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SURAT:

13% chance
Suggested:
CLONE
9% chance
Suggested:
CLINE
9% chance
Suggested:
PRIED

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.3% →
CLONE 5.94 bits
9.2% →
CLINE 5.46 bits
8.5% →
PRIED 5.06 bits
5.6% →
LEARN 4.39 bits
4.0% →
CLINE 5.20 bits
3.6% →
TITHE 5.07 bits
2.9% →
MOILE 3.92 bits
2.5% →
CLINE 4.60 bits
2.4% →
LATTE 4.35 bits
2.2% →
CLONE 4.62 bits

Research on SURAT

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

Optimal play

Opening with SURAT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #448 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 SURAT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.57, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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
SURAT sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).