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

LADEE

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

No dictionary definition for LADEE is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 LADEE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LADEE 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 81.1% of games, misses completely in 18.9%, and leaves about 150 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,816 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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 LADEE 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.

4.94 Entropy (bits)
150 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 81% of evaluated openers
1.00 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LADEE 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#7,816 Rank among openers
Opening with LADEE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #7,816 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
822
4 guesses
1,208
5 guesses
241
6 guesses
20
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AEL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
44%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

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

448 answers
187 answers
146 answers
135 answers
134 answers
115 answers
105 answers
97 answers
71 answers
63 answers
61 answers
42 answers
39 answers
36 answers
35 answers
35 answers
34 answers
33 answers
32 answers
28 answers
28 answers
26 answers
24 answers
24 answers
24 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1A1D2E1E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing LADEE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LADEE:

19% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
8% chance
Suggested:
SCANT
6% chance
Suggested:
SOULY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.9%
HOIST 5.98 bits
7.9%
SCANT 5.24 bits
6.1%
SOULY 4.51 bits
5.7%
TONEY 4.07 bits
5.6%
TRONE 4.62 bits
4.8%
STALL 4.22 bits
4.4%
RESIN 4.86 bits
4.1%
ROAST 3.93 bits
3.0%
ROUND 4.79 bits
2.7%
REAST 4.46 bits

Research on LADEE

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

Optimal play

Opening with LADEE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,721 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 LADEE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72; proven optimal play reaches 3.68. 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 LAYDEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LADEE 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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).