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

LIMED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of lime

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 LIMED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LIMED 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 82.7% of games, misses completely in 17.3%, and leaves about 163 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,182 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___D L in the 1st position and D in the 5th position L__E_ L in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__D I in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe LIMED 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.

4.84 Entropy (bits)
163 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 74% of evaluated openers
1.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LIMED 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
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#3,182 Rank among openers
Opening with LIMED left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #3,182 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
72
3 guesses
924
4 guesses
1,147
5 guesses
199
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:
EIL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
29%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

LIMED can come back 108 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

411 answers
304 answers
180 answers
153 answers
140 answers
108 answers
76 answers
74 answers
69 answers
67 answers
61 answers
56 answers
41 answers
37 answers
30 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1I1M3E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

ROAST COAST SAINT CEASE MACRO TRINE

Strategy after playing LIMED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LIMED:

17% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
13% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
8% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.3% →
ROAST 6.16 bits
12.8% →
ROAST 5.79 bits
7.6% →
COAST 5.24 bits
6.4% →
SAINT 5.43 bits
5.9% →
ROAST 4.63 bits
4.5% →
CEASE 4.59 bits
3.2% →
MACRO 5.05 bits
3.1% →
TRINE 4.67 bits
2.9% →
SHART 4.34 bits
2.8% →
SLART 4.41 bits

Research on LIMED

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

Optimal play

Opening with LIMED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,614 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 LIMED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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 LYMD. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, LIMED is a kind of compound or oxide.

Synonyms linden

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LIMED 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).