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

REDUB

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈdʌb/

Verb

To give another name or title to; to dub again.

Verb

To dub (video material) again; to provide with a new soundtrack.

Noun

A video re-edited in any way an editor wants.

Noun

A remedy or improvement

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 REDUB performs as a guess

Wordle accepts REDUB 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 79.5% of games, misses completely in 20.5%, and leaves about 204 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,776 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

R__U_ R in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _E__B E in the 2nd position and B in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe REDUB 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.

4.52 Entropy (bits)
204 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 53% of evaluated openers
1.43 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How REDUB 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#4,776 Rank among openers
Opening with REDUB left 2 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 3.67 average. It ranks #4,776 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
878
4 guesses
1,207
5 guesses
189
6 guesses
15
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:
ERU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
19%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

REDUB can come back 93 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

486 answers
316 answers
222 answers
206 answers
148 answers
84 answers
63 answers
59 answers
52 answers
43 answers
42 answers
42 answers
41 answers
34 answers
32 answers
27 answers
27 answers
25 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
14 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1E1D2U1B3
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SLANT COAST SHALT DAILY SAULT AINEE

Strategy after playing REDUB

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing REDUB:

20% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
13% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
9% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.5% →
SLANT 5.98 bits
13.3% →
SLANT 5.85 bits
9.4% →
COAST 5.55 bits
8.7% →
COAST 4.83 bits
6.2% →
SLANT 5.04 bits
3.5% →
SHALT 4.77 bits
2.7% →
DAILY 4.77 bits
2.5% →
SLANT 4.70 bits
2.2% →
SAULT 4.60 bits
1.8% →
AINEE 4.52 bits

Research on REDUB

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

Optimal play

Opening with REDUB, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,893 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 REDUB can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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 second syllable Say it RUHDOOB. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
REDUB 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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).