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SOUND

Yes, SOUND was the Wordle answer on February 14, 2023 (Wordle #605).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈsaʊ̯nd/[ˈsaʊ̯nd]/ˈsæʊ̯nd/

Adjective

Healthy.

“He was safe and sound.”

Adjective

Complete, solid, or secure.

“Fred assured me the floorboards were sound.”

Adverb

Soundly.

Interjection

Yes; used to show agreement or understanding.

“I found my jacket. — Sound.”

Alternative forms: soune, sownd, sowne

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: February 14, 2023 (#605).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How SOUND performs as a guess

SOUND is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 76.4% of games, misses completely in 23.6%, and leaves about 190 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,201 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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___D S in the 1st position and D in the 5th position S__N_ S in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

CARTE PLATE TALER LINER MARLE PRATE
Words starting with S Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.77 Entropy (bits)
190 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 70% of evaluated openers
1.18 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SOUND 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#1,201 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SOUND ranks #1,201 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
1,004
4 guesses
1,118
5 guesses
155
6 guesses
17
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:
NOSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
39%
All gray
24%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S C O L D
S O U N D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SOUND in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

98 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

557
163
138
135
119
115
106
102
61
52
48
45
45
38
33
30
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17

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SOUND:

24% chance
Suggested:
CARTE
7% chance
Suggested:
PLATE
6% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.6% →
CARTE 6.30 bits
6.9% →
PLATE 5.53 bits
5.9% →
TALER 5.21 bits
5.7% →
LINER 5.21 bits
5.0% →
MARLE 4.62 bits
4.9% →
PRATE 5.41 bits
4.5% →
RAILE 5.46 bits
4.3% →
CARLE 4.87 bits
2.6% →
TEARY 4.83 bits
2.2% →
BARON 4.39 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1O1U1N1D2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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