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SUEDE

Yes, SUEDE was the Wordle answer on May 24, 2025 (Wordle #1435).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /sweɪd//swed/

Noun

A type of soft leather, made from calfskin, with a brushed texture to resemble fabric, often used to make boots, clothing and fashion accessories.

Adjective

Made of suede.

Verb

To make (leather) into suede.

Verb

To finish (fabric) by abrasion, giving it a fibrous surface.

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: May 24, 2025 (#1435).

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

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How SUEDE performs as a guess

SUEDE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 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 211 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,107 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

S___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__D_ S in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _U__E U in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in SUEDE.

First-turn measures

All four describe SUEDE 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.

4.56 Entropy (bits)
211 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 56% of evaluated openers
1.38 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SUEDE 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.75% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#9,107 Rank among openers
Opening with SUEDE left 6 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 3.74 average. It ranks #9,107 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
798
4 guesses
1,225
5 guesses
248
6 guesses
25
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
3 vowels
Common:
ESU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
43%
All gray
24%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N G
S U E D E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SUEDE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

SUEDE can come back 89 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

561 answers
278 answers
161 answers
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Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1U1E1D2E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

TALON LATER LAIRY RAILE DRAIN ROAST

Strategy after playing SUEDE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SUEDE:

24% chance
Suggested:
TALON
12% chance
Suggested:
LATER
7% chance
Suggested:
LAIRY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.6% →
TALON 5.93 bits
11.7% →
LATER 5.29 bits
6.8% →
LAIRY 4.59 bits
6.3% →
RAILE 4.40 bits
4.4% →
DRAIN 5.26 bits
4.2% →
ROAST 4.89 bits
4.0% →
COUNT 4.84 bits
3.9% →
CLARY 4.24 bits
2.7% →
ARIEL 4.40 bits
2.4% →
PRATE 3.63 bits

Research on SUEDE

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

Optimal play

Opening with SUEDE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #7,999 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 SUEDE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.74, 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

One syllable Say it SWAYD.

Rhymes with TRADE GRADE BLADE SHADE EVADE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SUEDE is a kind of leather or material.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SUEDE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

In a sentence

Tom is wearing a brown suede coat.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Tom was wearing a brown suede coat.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).