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

SYVER

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

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.1% 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 SYVER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SYVER 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 83.9% of games, misses completely in 16.1%, and leaves about 163 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,816 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

First-turn measures

All four describe SYVER 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.

4.61 Entropy (bits)
163 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 59% of evaluated openers
1.33 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SYVER 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,816 Rank among openers
Opening with SYVER solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.78 average. It ranks #10,816 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
734
4 guesses
1,269
5 guesses
272
6 guesses
25
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
32%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

SYVER can come back 81 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

382 answers
283 answers
214 answers
170 answers
141 answers
138 answers
99 answers
79 answers
75 answers
70 answers
63 answers
54 answers
41 answers
38 answers
35 answers
34 answers
33 answers
32 answers
32 answers
28 answers
24 answers
23 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1Y4V4E1R1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing SYVER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SYVER:

16% chance
Suggested:
TONAL
12% chance
Suggested:
ALINE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.1%
TONAL 5.96 bits
11.9%
ALINE 5.33 bits
9.0%
TRAIN 5.24 bits
7.2%
DAILY 4.37 bits
5.9%
IRATE 4.60 bits
5.8%
SLANT 4.65 bits
4.2%
TOILE 3.36 bits
3.3%
LEANT 4.30 bits
3.2%
PLANE 4.40 bits
2.9%
LASSO 4.52 bits

Research on SYVER

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

Optimal play

Opening with SYVER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,404 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 SYVER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78; proven optimal play reaches 3.76. 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

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

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.