5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

BLUED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /bluːd/

Verb

simple past and past participle of blue

Adjective

Having the property of having been chemically passivated.

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 BLUED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BLUED 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 78.7% of games, misses completely in 21.3%, and leaves about 198 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,987 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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.

B___D B in the 1st position and D in the 5th position B__E_ B in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _L__D L in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

SAINT TARSE SONAR LOYAL RUSTY STALE
Words starting with B Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.69 Entropy (bits)
198 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 65% of evaluated openers
1.26 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BLUED 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#3,987 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BLUED ranks #3,987 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
82
3 guesses
885
4 guesses
1,167
5 guesses
207
6 guesses
13
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
35%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

113 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

502
335
161
152
108
92
75
71
61
61
47
43
43
40
34
28
26
25
21
21
18
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15
15
15
14
14
13
13
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BLUED:

21% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
14% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
7% chance
Suggested:
SONAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.3% →
SAINT 6.10 bits
14.2% →
TARSE 5.52 bits
6.8% →
SONAR 4.75 bits
6.4% →
LOYAL 5.11 bits
4.6% →
RUSTY 4.41 bits
3.9% →
STALE 4.68 bits
3.2% →
DROIT 5.02 bits
3.0% →
COAST 4.48 bits
2.6% →
IRADE 4.68 bits
2.6% →
SHART 4.76 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3L1U1E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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