5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SURRA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A disease of vertebrate animals caused by protozoan trypanosomes, involving fever, weakness, and lethargy.

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 SURRA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SURRA 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 81.4% of games, misses completely in 18.6%, and leaves about 190 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,552 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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__R_ S in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _U__A U in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE CLINE LEANT MOILE CONTE THALE
Words starting with S Words ending with A

First-turn measures

4.52 Entropy (bits)
190 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 53% of evaluated openers
1.43 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SURRA 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#9,552 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SURRA ranks #9,552 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
816
4 guesses
1,188
5 guesses
268
6 guesses
31
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:
ARSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
34%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

85 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

439
345
214
154
141
92
89
85
69
61
49
48
37
34
32
32
31
29
28
25
23
20
16
16
15
12
12
11
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SURRA:

19% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
15% chance
Suggested:
CLINE
9% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.6% →
TOILE 6.01 bits
14.6% →
CLINE 5.52 bits
9.1% →
TOILE 4.94 bits
6.5% →
LEANT 4.47 bits
6.0% →
CLINE 5.13 bits
3.9% →
MOILE 4.09 bits
3.8% →
CONTE 5.04 bits
3.6% →
THALE 4.59 bits
2.9% →
ALATE 4.58 bits
2.6% →
THOSE 4.86 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1U1R1R1A1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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