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

LEUDS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.6% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of leud

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 LEUDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LEUDS 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 84.2% of games, misses completely in 15.8%, and leaves about 152 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,584 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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 LEUDS 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.

4.82 Entropy (bits)
152 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 73% of evaluated openers
1.12 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LEUDS 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#4,584 Rank among openers
Opening with LEUDS left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,584 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
885
4 guesses
1,184
5 guesses
204
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:
ELSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
24%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

LEUDS can come back 96 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

375 answers
294 answers
183 answers
161 answers
135 answers
107 answers
95 answers
89 answers
76 answers
59 answers
58 answers
39 answers
38 answers
34 answers
34 answers
33 answers
33 answers
29 answers
27 answers
27 answers
27 answers
25 answers
23 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1E1U1D2S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing LEUDS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LEUDS:

16% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
12% chance
Suggested:
ORATE
8% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.8%
TRAIN 6.03 bits
12.4%
ORATE 5.23 bits
7.7%
ROAST 5.36 bits
6.8%
FLAIL 4.99 bits
5.7%
STAIR 4.86 bits
4.5%
BLATE 4.49 bits
4.0%
TIARE 4.62 bits
3.7%
BURNT 4.51 bits
3.2%
DROIT 5.14 bits
2.5%
DRIED 4.59 bits

Research on LEUDS

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

Optimal play

Opening with LEUDS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,675 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 LEUDS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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 LOODZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.