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

SWEED

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

No dictionary definition for SWEED is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 87.8% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 SWEED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SWEED 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 70.9% of games, misses completely in 29.1%, and leaves about 290 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,469 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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 SWEED 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.

4.15 Entropy (bits)
290 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 30% of evaluated openers
1.79 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SWEED 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#11,469 Rank among openers
Opening with SWEED solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,469 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
696
4 guesses
1,282
5 guesses
305
6 guesses
13
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:
ES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
36%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

SWEED can come back 87 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

690 answers
316 answers
191 answers
145 answers
131 answers
94 answers
76 answers
65 answers
62 answers
58 answers
53 answers
41 answers
33 answers
26 answers
26 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1W4E1E1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing SWEED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SWEED:

29% chance
Suggested:
TALON
13% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
8% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.1%
TALON 5.82 bits
13.3%
RAILE 5.25 bits
8.0%
SAULT 4.50 bits
6.1%
LAIRY 4.46 bits
5.5%
ROAST 4.92 bits
4.0%
RADIO 4.90 bits
3.2%
TIARE 4.46 bits
2.7%
PARTE 4.00 bits
2.6%
PAUSE 4.28 bits
2.4%
ALURE 4.37 bits

Research on SWEED

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

Optimal play

Opening with SWEED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,006 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 SWEED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80; proven optimal play reaches 3.79. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 SWEED. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SWEED sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).