5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

SUDAN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A traditional Korean punch, made from boiled rice flour cakes and honeyed water, often consumed on holidays.

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 SUDAN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SUDAN 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 82.2% of games, misses completely in 17.8%, and leaves about 161 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,576 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___N S in the 1st position and N in the 5th position S__A_ S in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _U__N U in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE CARLE TRIPE DROLE TROPE PROLE
Words starting with S Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.83 Entropy (bits)
161 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 74% of evaluated openers
1.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SUDAN 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#2,576 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SUDAN ranks #2,576 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
958
4 guesses
1,140
5 guesses
177
6 guesses
16
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:
ANSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
35%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

100 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

419
318
137
128
103
85
82
80
77
77
75
70
51
39
32
30
30
29
27
27
25
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13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SUDAN:

18% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
13% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
6% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.8% →
TOILE 5.90 bits
13.5% →
CARLE 5.54 bits
5.8% →
TOILE 5.26 bits
5.4% →
TRIPE 5.09 bits
4.4% →
DROLE 5.32 bits
3.6% →
TROPE 5.28 bits
3.5% →
PROLE 4.22 bits
3.4% →
CLOTE 5.23 bits
3.3% →
TOILE 4.41 bits
3.3% →
CLOTE 4.79 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1U1D2A1N1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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