5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

LUGED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /luːʒd/

Verb

simple past and past participle of luge

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 LUGED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LUGED 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 79.5% of games, misses completely in 20.5%, and leaves about 194 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,402 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.

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 _U__D U in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

COAST SHART SONAR STALE CRUST SNARY
Words starting with L Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.66 Entropy (bits)
194 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 62% of evaluated openers
1.29 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How LUGED 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
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#4,402 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, LUGED ranks #4,402 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
74
3 guesses
880
4 guesses
1,185
5 guesses
198
6 guesses
15
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
2 vowels
Common:
ELU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
29%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

106 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

484
327
199
155
116
95
71
68
60
57
46
43
43
38
30
25
23
22
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13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LUGED:

21% chance
Suggested:
COAST
14% chance
Suggested:
SHART
8% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.5% →
COAST 6.03 bits
13.9% →
SHART 5.80 bits
8.4% →
COAST 5.24 bits
6.6% →
SONAR 4.75 bits
4.9% →
STALE 4.64 bits
4.0% →
CRUST 5.26 bits
3.0% →
SNARY 3.98 bits
2.9% →
DROIT 4.97 bits
2.5% →
ORATE 4.58 bits
2.4% →
ROANY 4.94 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1U1G2E1D2
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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