5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SCUDS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of scud

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of scud

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 SCUDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SCUDS 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 64.0% of games, misses completely in 36.0%, and leaves about 398 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,602 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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___S S in the 1st position and S in the 5th position S__D_ S in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _C__S C in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ARIEL CHARE PLATE TALER ROATE TARGE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.59 Entropy (bits)
398 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.1% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SCUDS 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#11,602 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SCUDS ranks #11,602 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
31
3 guesses
726
4 guesses
1,298
5 guesses
281
6 guesses
17

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
SU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
26%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

60 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

850
263
231
200
144
135
64
46
37
31
25
23
23
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SCUDS:

36% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
11% chance
Suggested:
CHARE
10% chance
Suggested:
PLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

36.0% →
ARIEL 6.11 bits
11.1% →
CHARE 5.53 bits
9.8% →
PLATE 5.43 bits
8.5% →
ARIEL 5.75 bits
6.1% →
TALER 4.95 bits
5.7% →
ROATE 5.62 bits
2.7% →
TARGE 4.85 bits
1.9% →
RIONE 4.42 bits
1.6% →
CLINE 3.96 bits
1.3% →
RAINE 4.00 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1C3U1D2S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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