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

SOLDO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.1% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

An Italian coin, formerly one-twentieth of a lira.

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 SOLDO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SOLDO 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 73.1% of games, misses completely in 26.9%, and leaves about 260 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,820 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe SOLDO 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.

4.21 Entropy (bits)
260 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 33% of evaluated openers
1.74 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SOLDO 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#7,820 Rank among openers
Opening with SOLDO left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #7,820 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
841
4 guesses
1,211
5 guesses
246
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
LOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
35%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

SOLDO can come back 82 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

638 answers
281 answers
193 answers
147 answers
140 answers
140 answers
107 answers
60 answers
53 answers
45 answers
44 answers
42 answers
36 answers
36 answers
31 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
21 answers
20 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1O1L1D2O1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing SOLDO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SOLDO:

27% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
12% chance
Suggested:
RAINE
8% chance
Suggested:
PEART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.9%
TIARE 6.27 bits
11.8%
RAINE 5.41 bits
8.1%
PEART 5.41 bits
6.2%
TIARE 5.36 bits
5.9%
DINER 5.48 bits
5.9%
CRANE 5.35 bits
4.5%
TRUCE 4.88 bits
2.5%
TUILE 4.22 bits
2.2%
RAILE 4.52 bits
1.9%
REACT 4.12 bits

Research on SOLDO

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

Optimal play

Opening with SOLDO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,299 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 SOLDO can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it SOHLDOH.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SOLDO 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).