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

PSEUD

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /s(j)uːd//suːd/

Noun

An intellectually pretentious person; a poseur.

Noun

Pseudomonas bacteria.

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 PSEUD performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PSEUD 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 80.0% of games, misses completely in 20.0%, and leaves about 218 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,023 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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.

P___D P in the 1st position and D in the 5th position P__U_ P in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _S__D S in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PSEUD 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.

4.44 Entropy (bits)
218 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 48% of evaluated openers
1.51 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PSEUD 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#6,023 Rank among openers
Opening with PSEUD 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 3.69 average. It ranks #6,023 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
833
4 guesses
1,231
5 guesses
208
6 guesses
12
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:
ESU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
21%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

PSEUD can come back 92 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

475 answers
419 answers
204 answers
139 answers
118 answers
95 answers
85 answers
69 answers
56 answers
49 answers
48 answers
44 answers
40 answers
38 answers
36 answers
35 answers
33 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3S1E1U1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

CAROL LAREE SLART BURNT STAIR RAILE

Strategy after playing PSEUD

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PSEUD:

20% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
18% chance
Suggested:
LAREE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.0% →
CAROL 6.08 bits
17.6% →
LAREE 5.39 bits
8.6% →
SLART 5.30 bits
5.9% →
BURNT 4.96 bits
5.0% →
STAIR 4.83 bits
4.0% →
RAILE 4.85 bits
3.6% →
DAILY 4.91 bits
2.9% →
ERECT 4.72 bits
2.4% →
SHUNT 4.22 bits
2.1% →
TUILE 4.48 bits

Research on PSEUD

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

Optimal play

Opening with PSEUD, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,774 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 PSEUD can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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

One syllable Say it SOOD. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PSEUD is a kind of cheat.

Synonyms fake FRAUD pseudo sham

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PSEUD 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).