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

LAUDS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of laud

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of laud

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 LAUDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LAUDS 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 82.1% of games, misses completely in 17.9%, and leaves about 157 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,043 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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.

L___S L in the 1st position and S in the 5th position L__D_ L in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe LAUDS 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.

4.78 Entropy (bits)
157 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 70% of evaluated openers
1.17 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LAUDS 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#3,043 Rank among openers
Opening with LAUDS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #3,043 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
935
4 guesses
1,166
5 guesses
181
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
2 vowels
Common:
ALSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
26%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

LAUDS can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

426 answers
206 answers
187 answers
151 answers
142 answers
128 answers
111 answers
105 answers
98 answers
52 answers
48 answers
47 answers
44 answers
36 answers
34 answers
33 answers
32 answers
31 answers
31 answers
29 answers
26 answers
26 answers
24 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1A1U1D2S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

TRONE STIRE TRACE RONTE NOIRE PLORE

Strategy after playing LAUDS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LAUDS:

18% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
9% chance
Suggested:
STIRE
8% chance
Suggested:
TRACE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.9% →
TRONE 6.16 bits
8.7% →
STIRE 5.54 bits
7.9% →
TRACE 5.70 bits
6.4% →
RONTE 4.88 bits
6.0% →
NOIRE 4.87 bits
5.4% →
PLORE 4.45 bits
4.7% →
TONER 4.87 bits
4.4% →
PEART 4.97 bits
4.1% →
DINER 5.43 bits
2.2% →
DRONE 4.71 bits

Research on LAUDS

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

Optimal play

Opening with LAUDS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,807 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 LAUDS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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 LAWDZ.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, LAUDS is a kind of praise.

Synonyms proclaim glorify

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LAUDS sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (4.3 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).