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

OUNDY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Alternative form of undé.

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

Use OUNDY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 88.6% 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 OUNDY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts OUNDY 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 71.6% of games, misses completely in 28.4%, and leaves about 273 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,990 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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 OUNDY 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.

4.27 Entropy (bits)
273 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How OUNDY 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#6,990 Rank among openers
Opening with OUNDY left 1 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 3.70 average. It ranks #6,990 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
861
4 guesses
1,219
5 guesses
206
6 guesses
22

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
NOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
28%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

OUNDY can come back 88 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

678 answers
291 answers
166 answers
143 answers
117 answers
114 answers
82 answers
72 answers
52 answers
51 answers
48 answers
45 answers
45 answers
43 answers
26 answers
25 answers
25 answers
21 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

O1U1N1D2Y4
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing OUNDY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OUNDY:

28% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
12% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLIER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.4% →
TARSE 6.37 bits
12.2% →
TARSE 5.48 bits
7.0% →
SLIER 5.29 bits
6.0% →
TARSE 5.12 bits
4.9% →
SALET 5.26 bits
4.8% →
ARIEL 5.45 bits
3.4% →
ARIEL 4.48 bits
3.0% →
SLIER 4.89 bits
2.2% →
SLANT 4.31 bits
2.1% →
SAICE 4.47 bits

Research on OUNDY

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

Optimal play

Opening with OUNDY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #7,999 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 OUNDY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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).