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

LOUED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of loue

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 LOUED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LOUED 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 86.1% of games, misses completely in 13.9%, and leaves about 131 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,662 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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.

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 _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position LO_ED L in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and D in the 5th position

Try next

SHIRT REATE ARSON STALL STAIR PEASE
Words starting with L Words ending with D

First-turn measures

All four describe LOUED 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.

5.06 Entropy (bits)
131 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 86% of evaluated openers
0.89 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LOUED 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#3,662 Rank among openers
Opening with LOUED left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,662 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
76
3 guesses
923
4 guesses
1,122
5 guesses
215
6 guesses
16
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

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ELOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
34%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

LOUED can come back 107 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

328 answers
288 answers
148 answers
147 answers
129 answers
108 answers
93 answers
90 answers
69 answers
52 answers
51 answers
50 answers
45 answers
43 answers
42 answers
37 answers
34 answers
30 answers
30 answers
27 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LOUED:

14% chance
Suggested:
SHIRT
12% chance
Suggested:
REATE
6% chance
Suggested:
ARSON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.9% →
SHIRT 5.97 bits
12.2% →
REATE 5.59 bits
6.3% →
ARSON 5.37 bits
6.2% →
STALL 5.07 bits
5.5% →
STAIR 4.59 bits
4.6% →
PEASE 4.48 bits
3.9% →
SNARY 4.59 bits
3.8% →
SHART 4.56 bits
2.9% →
SNARE 4.40 bits
2.2% →
DEARE 4.65 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1O1U1E1D2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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