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

CLADS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of clad

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 CLADS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CLADS 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 81.8% of games, misses completely in 18.2%, and leaves about 158 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #589 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

C___S C in the 1st position and S in the 5th position C__D_ C in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _L__S L in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in CLADS.

First-turn measures

All four describe CLADS 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.

4.86 Entropy (bits)
158 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 76% of evaluated openers
1.08 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CLADS 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.66 Spread of game lengths
#589 Rank among openers
Opening with CLADS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.66 means those games clustered within about 0.66 of a guess of the 3.59 average. It ranks #589 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
1,015
4 guesses
1,127
5 guesses
140
6 guesses
11
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:
ALS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
29%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

CLADS can come back 98 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

433 answers
245 answers
206 answers
144 answers
119 answers
100 answers
85 answers
69 answers
63 answers
62 answers
61 answers
45 answers
42 answers
41 answers
34 answers
33 answers
31 answers
30 answers
30 answers
29 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3L1A1D2S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

RONTE ROUET TONER LIBEL DINER PARTE

Strategy after playing CLADS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CLADS:

18% chance
Suggested:
RONTE
10% chance
Suggested:
ROUET
9% chance
Suggested:
TONER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.2% →
RONTE 6.26 bits
10.3% →
ROUET 5.62 bits
8.7% →
TONER 5.40 bits
6.1% →
LIBEL 5.20 bits
5.0% →
DINER 5.54 bits
4.2% →
PARTE 4.67 bits
3.6% →
TRINE 5.14 bits
2.9% →
PARTE 4.86 bits
2.7% →
IRONE 5.10 bits
2.6% →
TRINE 4.89 bits

Research on CLADS

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

Optimal play

Opening with CLADS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,813 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 CLADS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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

One syllable Say it KLADZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CLADS 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.1 of 5).

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).