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

NUDER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

comparative form of nude: more nude

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 NUDER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts NUDER 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 84.0% of games, misses completely in 16.0%, and leaves about 145 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,432 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe NUDER 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.

4.94 Entropy (bits)
145 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 80% of evaluated openers
1.01 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How NUDER 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
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#3,432 Rank among openers
Opening with NUDER solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #3,432 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
75
3 guesses
920
4 guesses
1,147
5 guesses
192
6 guesses
20
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:
ENRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
27%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

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

380 answers
259 answers
188 answers
151 answers
149 answers
97 answers
82 answers
68 answers
68 answers
65 answers
50 answers
48 answers
47 answers
43 answers
39 answers
39 answers
38 answers
36 answers
35 answers
25 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

N1U1D2E1R1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing NUDER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing NUDER:

16% chance
Suggested:
SLATY
11% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.0%
SLATY 5.87 bits
10.9%
SLATE 5.92 bits
7.9%
COAST 5.63 bits
6.4%
COAST 5.25 bits
6.3%
PEART 4.78 bits
4.1%
COAST 3.43 bits
3.5%
LIANE 4.41 bits
2.9%
COAST 4.89 bits
2.9%
SALTY 4.19 bits
2.7%
BETEL 4.32 bits

Research on NUDER

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

Optimal play

Opening with NUDER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,681 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 NUDER 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

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

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, NUDER is a kind of picture or nudity.

Synonyms NAKED bare

Opposites clothed

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).