5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

PULED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of pule

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 PULED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PULED 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 80.4% of games, misses completely in 19.6%, and leaves about 177 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,208 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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.

P___D P in the 1st position and D in the 5th position P__E_ P 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

TRAIN TIARE COAST SONAR SLATE CRUST
Words starting with P Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.79 Entropy (bits)
177 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 71% of evaluated openers
1.16 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PULED 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#2,208 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PULED ranks #2,208 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
76
3 guesses
935
4 guesses
1,153
5 guesses
177
6 guesses
12
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
33%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

110 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

461
307
174
151
109
91
79
73
64
61
46
46
44
43
39
37
31
29
24
20
20
17
17
17
15
15
14
14
13
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PULED:

20% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
13% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
7% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.6% →
TRAIN 6.06 bits
13.0% →
TIARE 5.53 bits
7.4% →
COAST 5.22 bits
6.4% →
SONAR 4.76 bits
4.6% →
SLATE 4.85 bits
3.9% →
CRUST 5.20 bits
3.4% →
SNARY 4.17 bits
3.1% →
DROIT 4.94 bits
2.7% →
IRADE 4.73 bits
2.6% →
ROAST 4.94 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3U1L1E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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