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

RUBLI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.7% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of rublis

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 RUBLI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RUBLI 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 82.8% of games, misses completely in 17.2%, and leaves about 196 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,210 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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 RUBLI 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.

4.49 Entropy (bits)
196 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 51% of evaluated openers
1.46 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RUBLI 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
100% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#6,210 Rank among openers
Opening with RUBLI solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,210 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
872
4 guesses
1,189
5 guesses
222
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:
ILRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
20%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

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

408 answers
367 answers
258 answers
200 answers
119 answers
97 answers
82 answers
72 answers
70 answers
51 answers
46 answers
43 answers
38 answers
38 answers
34 answers
34 answers
32 answers
28 answers
24 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1U1B3L1I1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing RUBLI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RUBLI:

17% chance
Suggested:
CASTE
15% chance
Suggested:
COATE
11% chance
Suggested:
SIENT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.2%
CASTE 6.01 bits
15.5%
COATE 5.52 bits
10.9%
SIENT 5.41 bits
8.4%
STOAE 5.39 bits
5.0%
TRIED 4.76 bits
4.1%
STONE 5.04 bits
3.5%
STANE 4.44 bits
3.0%
SADHE 4.76 bits
2.9%
SHAME 3.93 bits
2.1%
STONE 4.54 bits

Research on RUBLI

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

Optimal play

Opening with RUBLI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #7,193 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.85 guesses at best and is rank #2,699 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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 RUHBLEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.