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

ALMUD

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A traditional Spanish and Portuguese unit of dry measure or volume, highly variable by region and substance but often equivalent to about 4.6 liters (one celemin).

Noun

A traditional unit of land area, nominally the amount of land that could be sown with one almud of seed.

Alternative forms: almude

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 ALMUD performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ALMUD 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 76.9% of games, misses completely in 23.1%, and leaves about 222 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,445 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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 ALMUD 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.

4.48 Entropy (bits)
222 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 51% of evaluated openers
1.46 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ALMUD 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#3,445 Rank among openers
Opening with ALMUD left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #3,445 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
904
4 guesses
1,187
5 guesses
185
6 guesses
9
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
2 vowels
Common:
ALU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
23%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

ALMUD can come back 99 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

549 answers
345 answers
159 answers
149 answers
135 answers
95 answers
71 answers
61 answers
60 answers
60 answers
52 answers
46 answers
44 answers
42 answers
35 answers
34 answers
27 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1L1M3U1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing ALMUD

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ALMUD:

23% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
15% chance
Suggested:
CARTE
7% chance
Suggested:
CRUST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.1%
TRONE 6.22 bits
14.5%
CARTE 5.70 bits
6.7%
CRUST 5.18 bits
6.3%
LIBEL 4.99 bits
5.7%
TARSE 4.88 bits
4.0%
DRONE 5.36 bits
3.0%
PORTE 5.28 bits
2.6%
CORSE 4.76 bits
2.5%
SPICE 4.70 bits
2.5%
TRONE 4.93 bits

Research on ALMUD

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

Optimal play

Opening with ALMUD, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #3,918 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 ALMUD can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it ALMUHD. 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.