5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SCUDO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A former unit of currency in Malta, now the official currency of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

Noun

A silver coin and unit of currency of various Italian states from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

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 SCUDO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SCUDO 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 76.1% of games, misses completely in 23.9%, and leaves about 221 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,281 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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.

S___O S in the 1st position and O in the 5th position S__D_ S in the 1st position and D in the 4th position

Try next

TALER CHARE PLATE ARIEL PLANE TARSE
Words starting with S Words ending with O

First-turn measures

4.41 Entropy (bits)
221 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 46% of evaluated openers
1.54 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SCUDO 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#5,281 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SCUDO ranks #5,281 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
878
4 guesses
1,229
5 guesses
186
6 guesses
11
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
27%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

563
258
187
182
137
111
111
68
58
57
50
47
34
33
30
29
27
27
24
20
16
15
15
15
14
14
13
13
12
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SCUDO:

24% chance
Suggested:
TALER
11% chance
Suggested:
TALER
8% chance
Suggested:
CHARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.9% →
TALER 6.17 bits
10.9% →
TALER 5.30 bits
7.9% →
CHARE 5.52 bits
7.7% →
PLATE 5.42 bits
5.8% →
ARIEL 5.54 bits
4.7% →
PLANE 4.75 bits
4.7% →
TARSE 5.41 bits
2.9% →
CANER 4.48 bits
2.5% →
PARTE 4.10 bits
2.4% →
ARIEL 4.50 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1C3U1D2O1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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