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

SUBER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.1% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Cork, or the corresponding layer of woody tissue below the epidermis of a plant.

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 SUBER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SUBER 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 84.2% of games, misses completely in 15.8%, and leaves about 141 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,104 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe SUBER 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.

5.01 Entropy (bits)
141 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 84% of evaluated openers
0.94 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SUBER 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#5,104 Rank among openers
Opening with SUBER left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It ranks #5,104 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
73
3 guesses
879
4 guesses
1,167
5 guesses
216
6 guesses
18
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:
ERSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
39%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

SUBER can come back 110 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

375 answers
250 answers
196 answers
142 answers
133 answers
102 answers
88 answers
79 answers
74 answers
65 answers
59 answers
48 answers
40 answers
37 answers
35 answers
35 answers
32 answers
30 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
24 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1U1B3E1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing SUBER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SUBER:

16% chance
Suggested:
TALON
11% chance
Suggested:
LIANE
8% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.8%
TALON 5.81 bits
10.5%
LIANE 5.44 bits
8.3%
CAIRN 5.06 bits
6.0%
TRACE 4.76 bits
5.6%
COALY 4.59 bits
4.3%
TOILE 3.38 bits
3.7%
ANOLE 4.18 bits
3.3%
PLANE 4.39 bits
3.1%
COUNT 4.65 bits
2.7%
MEALY 3.70 bits

Research on SUBER

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

Optimal play

Opening with SUBER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,997 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 SUBER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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 SOOBUR.

Rhymes with TUBER

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SUBER 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).