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

LUDIC

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈluː.dɪk/

Adjective

Playful.

Adjective

Of or pertaining to play or games.

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 LUDIC performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LUDIC 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 75.4% of games, misses completely in 24.6%, and leaves about 229 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,504 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

L___C L in the 1st position and C in the 5th position L__I_ L in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _U__C U in the 2nd position and C in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe LUDIC 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.

4.39 Entropy (bits)
229 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 45% of evaluated openers
1.55 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LUDIC 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
#4,504 Rank among openers
Opening with LUDIC 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 #4,504 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
907
4 guesses
1,182
5 guesses
189
6 guesses
17
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:
ILU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
20%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

LUDIC can come back 85 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

583 answers
238 answers
234 answers
182 answers
112 answers
108 answers
87 answers
76 answers
52 answers
50 answers
49 answers
45 answers
45 answers
43 answers
38 answers
27 answers
27 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1U1D2I1C3
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

TARSE STOAE SIENT CRATE TORSE ARENE

Strategy after playing LUDIC

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LUDIC:

25% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
10% chance
Suggested:
STOAE
10% chance
Suggested:
SIENT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.6% →
TARSE 6.52 bits
10.0% →
STOAE 5.32 bits
9.9% →
SIENT 5.41 bits
7.7% →
CRATE 5.76 bits
4.7% →
TORSE 5.46 bits
4.5% →
ARENE 5.38 bits
3.7% →
MORSE 4.57 bits
3.2% →
AISLE 4.36 bits
2.2% →
CLEAN 4.61 bits
2.1% →
TARSE 5.00 bits

Research on LUDIC

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

Optimal play

Opening with LUDIC, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,632 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 LUDIC 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it LOODIHK. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

Synonyms playful

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
LUDIC 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).