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

RUNED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Inscribed with runes.

Verb

simple past and past participle of rune

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 RUNED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RUNED 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 84.0% of games, misses completely in 16.0%, and leaves about 141 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,703 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___D R in the 1st position and D in the 5th position R__E_ R in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _U__D U in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe RUNED 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.

5.05 Entropy (bits)
141 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 86% of evaluated openers
0.90 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RUNED 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#1,703 Rank among openers
Opening with RUNED 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 3.61 average. It ranks #1,703 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
77
3 guesses
957
4 guesses
1,129
5 guesses
178
6 guesses
12
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:
ENRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
32%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

RUNED can come back 116 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

380 answers
259 answers
203 answers
136 answers
118 answers
103 answers
68 answers
68 answers
67 answers
65 answers
55 answers
49 answers
48 answers
43 answers
40 answers
38 answers
38 answers
32 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1U1N1E1D2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SLATY SLATE COAST TRACE SLANT SALTY

Strategy after playing RUNED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RUNED:

16% chance
Suggested:
SLATY
11% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.0% →
SLATY 5.87 bits
10.9% →
SLATE 5.92 bits
8.6% →
COAST 5.59 bits
5.7% →
TRACE 4.86 bits
5.0% →
SLANT 5.32 bits
4.3% →
COAST 3.61 bits
2.9% →
COAST 4.89 bits
2.9% →
SALTY 4.19 bits
2.8% →
ALONE 4.46 bits
2.7% →
BETEL 4.32 bits

Research on RUNED

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

Optimal play

Opening with RUNED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #805 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 RUNED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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 ROOND. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, RUNED is a kind of score or try.

Synonyms go work play course move running

Opposites idle malfunction

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
RUNED 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 sight (3.6 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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).