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

RUDES

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

No dictionary definition for RUDES is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 RUDES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RUDES 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 85.1% of games, misses completely in 14.9%, and leaves about 135 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,672 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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__E_ R in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position RU_ES R in the 1st position, U in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe RUDES 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.

4.98 Entropy (bits)
135 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 82% of evaluated openers
0.97 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RUDES 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#3,672 Rank among openers
Opening with RUDES left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,672 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
913
4 guesses
1,152
5 guesses
207
6 guesses
10
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:
ERSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
28%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

RUDES can come back 104 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

354 answers
227 answers
186 answers
180 answers
119 answers
118 answers
99 answers
85 answers
66 answers
65 answers
58 answers
56 answers
54 answers
43 answers
40 answers
34 answers
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27 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
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18 answers
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16 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1U1D2E1S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

TALON LIANE CAROL SLANT COATE POTAE

Strategy after playing RUDES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RUDES:

15% chance
Suggested:
TALON
10% chance
Suggested:
LIANE
8% chance
Suggested:
CAROL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.9% →
TALON 5.89 bits
9.6% →
LIANE 5.37 bits
7.8% →
CAROL 5.16 bits
7.6% →
SLANT 5.20 bits
5.0% →
SLANT 4.93 bits
5.0% →
COATE 4.72 bits
4.2% →
POTAE 3.43 bits
3.6% →
LEANT 4.36 bits
2.8% →
COALY 3.78 bits
2.7% →
CLOUT 4.63 bits

Research on RUDES

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

Optimal play

Opening with RUDES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,756 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 RUDES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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

One syllable Say it ROODZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RUDES 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (4.1 of 5).

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).