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.

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

comparative form of nude: more nude

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Related meanings

Synonyms NAKED bare

Opposites clothed

Use NUDER in a puzzle

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

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

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

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:

381 answers
261 answers
189 answers
151 answers
149 answers
98 answers
82 answers
69 answers
68 answers
65 answers
50 answers
48 answers
47 answers
44 answers
39 answers
39 answers
38 answers
37 answers
35 answers
25 answers
21 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 5.88 bits
10.9% →
SLATE 5.91 bits
7.9% →
COAST 5.63 bits
6.3% →
COAST 5.25 bits
6.2% →
PEART 4.78 bits
4.1% →
COAST 3.42 bits
3.4% →
LIANE 4.41 bits
2.9% →
SALTY 4.17 bits
2.9% →
COAST 4.89 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0).