5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

KUDUS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 77.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of kudu

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 KUDUS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KUDUS 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 57.0% of games, misses completely in 43.0%, and leaves about 535 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,048 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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.

K___S K in the 1st position and S in the 5th position K__U_ K in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE ARIEL CARLE TRONE RAILE CRATE
Words starting with K Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.12 Entropy (bits)
535 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
77.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 2% of evaluated openers
2.83 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How KUDUS 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#14,048 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, KUDUS ranks #14,048 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
22
3 guesses
608
4 guesses
1,322
5 guesses
376
6 guesses
25
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
SU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
57%
Green tile
16%
All gray
43%

Feedback distribution

43 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1013
386
207
106
97
88
58
55
46
40
33
28
25
23
20
17
15
12
11
10
10
9
9
4
3
3
3
3
3
3

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KUDUS:

43% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
16% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
9% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

43.0% →
ROATE 6.06 bits
16.4% →
ROATE 5.65 bits
8.8% →
ARIEL 5.64 bits
4.5% →
CARLE 4.38 bits
4.1% →
TRONE 5.22 bits
3.7% →
CARLE 5.34 bits
2.5% →
RAILE 4.87 bits
2.3% →
CRATE 4.17 bits
2.0% →
SHART 4.14 bits
1.7% →
TRONE 4.48 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5U1D2U1S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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