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

SUDOR

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Sweat; the salty fluid excreted by the sweat glands.

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 SUDOR performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SUDOR 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 81.0% of games, misses completely in 19.0%, and leaves about 156 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,307 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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 SUDOR 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.

4.95 Entropy (bits)
156 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 81% of evaluated openers
1.00 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SUDOR 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#1,307 Rank among openers
Opening with SUDOR left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,307 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
999
4 guesses
1,132
5 guesses
156
6 guesses
12
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:
ORSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
36%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

SUDOR can come back 101 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

451 answers
229 answers
173 answers
156 answers
88 answers
85 answers
82 answers
80 answers
73 answers
69 answers
59 answers
42 answers
39 answers
35 answers
35 answers
34 answers
32 answers
30 answers
29 answers
29 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1U1D2O1R1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing SUDOR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SUDOR:

19% chance
Suggested:
LANCE
10% chance
Suggested:
REACT
7% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.0%
LANCE 6.21 bits
9.6%
REACT 5.44 bits
7.3%
LEANT 5.06 bits
6.6%
PLATE 5.48 bits
3.7%
PALET 5.18 bits
3.6%
CRATE 4.46 bits
3.5%
ANILE 5.30 bits
3.4%
LEANT 3.92 bits
3.1%
PLACE 4.18 bits
2.9%
PLATE 4.80 bits

Research on SUDOR

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

Optimal play

Opening with SUDOR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,027 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 SUDOR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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 SOODUR. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SUDOR is a kind of secretion.

Synonyms SWEAT

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0).