5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

SURDS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of surd

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 SURDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SURDS 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 72.1% of games, misses completely in 27.9%, and leaves about 289 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,437 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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___S S in the 1st position and S in the 5th position S__D_ S in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ALONE ARIEL PLATE ANILE THANE CLONE
Words starting with S Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.01 Entropy (bits)
289 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 23% of evaluated openers
1.94 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SURDS 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#9,437 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SURDS ranks #9,437 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
816
4 guesses
1,211
5 guesses
268
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
RSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
32%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

68 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

658
373
195
124
103
95
91
90
84
59
51
37
36
34
25
19
18
18
18
16
16
16
12
11
11
10
10
9
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SURDS:

28% chance
Suggested:
ALONE
16% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
8% chance
Suggested:
PLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.9% →
ALONE 6.09 bits
15.8% →
ARIEL 5.11 bits
8.3% →
PLATE 5.49 bits
5.3% →
ANILE 5.45 bits
4.4% →
THANE 5.16 bits
4.0% →
CLONE 4.92 bits
3.9% →
DIANE 4.93 bits
3.8% →
COATE 4.88 bits
3.6% →
GLACE 4.09 bits
2.5% →
THANE 4.61 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1U1R1D2S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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