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HUDUD

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

As an opener, it rules out about 67.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

The statutory punishments prescribed by the Quran for certain crimes, including theft, fornication, adultery, false accusation of adultery, drunkenness, and apostasy.

Alternative forms: hadood, hadud, hudood

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 HUDUD performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HUDUD 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 45.0% of games, misses completely in 55.0%, and leaves about 774 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,669 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.00 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.

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Useful pattern pages

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

H___D H in the 1st position and D in the 5th position H__U_ H in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _U__D U in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe HUDUD 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.

2.68 Entropy (bits)
774 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
67.4% Avg ruled out
In the bottom 1% for first-turn entropy
3.27 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HUDUD 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.

4.00 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.75 Spread of game lengths
#14,669 Rank among openers
Opening with HUDUD left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.75 means those games clustered within about 0.75 of a guess of the 4.00 average. It ranks #14,669 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
25
3 guesses
551
4 guesses
1,222
5 guesses
516
6 guesses
39
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
U

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
45%
Green tile
21%
All gray
55%

Feedback distribution

HUDUD can come back 44 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1306 answers
247 answers
139 answers
132 answers
132 answers
77 answers
62 answers
47 answers
45 answers
30 answers
16 answers
15 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4U1D2U1D2
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

RAILE CRATE ARIEL SLANT SLYER STORE

Strategy after playing HUDUD

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HUDUD:

55% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
10% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
6% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

55.0% →
RAILE 6.06 bits
10.4% →
CRATE 5.63 bits
5.9% →
ARIEL 5.43 bits
5.6% →
SLANT 5.28 bits
5.6% →
SLYER 4.54 bits
3.2% →
ARIEL 5.09 bits
2.6% →
STORE 4.84 bits
2.0% →
RAILE 4.86 bits
1.9% →
ROATE 4.81 bits
1.3% →
SCOTE 3.84 bits

Research on HUDUD

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

Optimal play

Opening with HUDUD, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.99 guesses and ranks #14,638 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 HUDUD can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 4.00; proven optimal play reaches 3.99. 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 HYOODUHD. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, HUDUD is a kind of crime or sharia.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
HUDUD 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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).