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

RUBLE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɹuːbəl/

Noun

The monetary unit of Russia, Belarus and Transnistria, equal to 100 kopeks. (Russian: копе́йка (kopéjka), Belarusian: капе́йка (kapjéjka)).

Alternative forms: rouble, rubl

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 RUBLE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RUBLE 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 84.8% of games, misses completely in 15.2%, and leaves about 137 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,453 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

R___E R in the 1st position and E in the 5th position R__L_ R in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _U__E U in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe RUBLE 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.

5.00 Entropy (bits)
137 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 83% of evaluated openers
0.95 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RUBLE 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#2,453 Rank among openers
Opening with RUBLE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,453 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
89
3 guesses
907
4 guesses
1,160
5 guesses
183
6 guesses
13
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:
ELRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
35%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

RUBLE can come back 119 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

360 answers
223 answers
174 answers
174 answers
146 answers
136 answers
90 answers
89 answers
78 answers
66 answers
61 answers
46 answers
39 answers
34 answers
33 answers
32 answers
29 answers
28 answers
28 answers
27 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
21 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1U1B3L1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SAINT COAST STAIR PETAL SNOUT MUSTY

Strategy after playing RUBLE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RUBLE:

15% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
9% chance
Suggested:
COAST
7% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.2% →
SAINT 6.06 bits
9.4% →
COAST 5.49 bits
7.3% →
SAINT 5.29 bits
7.3% →
STAIR 4.29 bits
6.1% →
COAST 5.27 bits
5.7% →
SAINT 5.28 bits
3.8% →
PETAL 4.53 bits
3.7% →
COAST 4.62 bits
3.3% →
SNOUT 4.80 bits
2.8% →
MUSTY 3.91 bits

Research on RUBLE

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

Optimal play

Opening with RUBLE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,511 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,580 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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 first syllable Say it ROOBUHL.

Rhymes with TUBAL RUBEL

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, RUBLE is a kind of unit.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RUBLE sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).