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

SUPED

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

No dictionary definition for SUPED is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 SUPED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SUPED 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 80.0% of games, misses completely in 20.0%, and leaves about 181 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,727 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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___D S in the 1st position and D in the 5th position S__E_ S in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _U__D U in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe SUPED 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.

4.76 Entropy (bits)
181 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 69% of evaluated openers
1.19 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SUPED 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
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#4,727 Rank among openers
Opening with SUPED solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It ranks #4,727 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
76
3 guesses
873
4 guesses
1,185
5 guesses
203
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ESU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
39%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

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

475 answers
317 answers
171 answers
125 answers
85 answers
81 answers
80 answers
78 answers
76 answers
71 answers
68 answers
57 answers
46 answers
40 answers
35 answers
35 answers
34 answers
27 answers
23 answers
23 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1U1P3E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

CAROL LEARE OATER SLANT DAILY ROAST

Strategy after playing SUPED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SUPED:

20% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
13% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
7% chance
Suggested:
OATER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.0% →
CAROL 6.08 bits
13.4% →
LEARE 5.50 bits
7.2% →
OATER 4.27 bits
5.3% →
SLANT 4.67 bits
3.6% →
DAILY 4.91 bits
3.4% →
ROAST 4.80 bits
3.4% →
CLARY 4.35 bits
3.3% →
COUNT 4.81 bits
3.2% →
RAILE 4.64 bits
3.0% →
ROANY 5.00 bits

Research on SUPED

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

Optimal play

Opening with SUPED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,110 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 SUPED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67; proven optimal play reaches 3.66. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 SOOPT. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, SUPED is a kind of taste or have.

Synonyms swallow

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
SUPED 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), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).