5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

RUBUS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Any of the genus Rubus of flowering plants, including the raspberry and blackberry.

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 RUBUS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RUBUS 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 70.1% of games, misses completely in 29.9%, and leaves about 360 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,452 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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.

R___S R in the 1st position and S in the 5th position R__U_ R in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

LIANE COATE PLATE STOAE ALONE GLACE
Words starting with R Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.63 Entropy (bits)
360 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 10% of evaluated openers
2.32 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How RUBUS 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#12,452 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, RUBUS ranks #12,452 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
710
4 guesses
1,246
5 guesses
335
6 guesses
21
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
RSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
18%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

65 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

705
439
331
113
87
84
83
66
50
45
32
28
27
26
21
16
16
15
12
11
10
9
9
9
8
7
6
6
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RUBUS:

30% chance
Suggested:
LIANE
19% chance
Suggested:
COATE
14% chance
Suggested:
PLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.9% →
LIANE 6.11 bits
18.6% →
COATE 5.50 bits
14.0% →
PLATE 5.71 bits
4.8% →
STOAE 5.11 bits
3.7% →
ALONE 5.22 bits
3.6% →
GLACE 4.14 bits
3.5% →
CLONE 4.75 bits
2.8% →
LIANE 4.46 bits
2.1% →
DIANE 4.68 bits
1.9% →
SLANT 4.30 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1U1B3U1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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