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TUBER

Yes, TUBER was the Wordle answer on October 24, 2025 (Wordle #1588).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtjuːbə(ɹ)//ˈtubɚ/

Noun

A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, for example a potato or arrowroot.

Noun

A thickened rootstock.

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: October 24, 2025 (#1588).

See the full page for that puzzle: October 24, 2025 (#1588).

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

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How TUBER performs as a guess

TUBER 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 84.0% of games, misses completely in 16.0%, and leaves about 142 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,929 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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.

T___R T in the 1st position and R in the 5th position T__E_ T in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _U__R U in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe TUBER 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.

5.02 Entropy (bits)
142 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 84% of evaluated openers
0.92 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How TUBER 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#2,929 Rank among openers
Opening with TUBER left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #2,929 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
86
3 guesses
896
4 guesses
1,169
5 guesses
187
6 guesses
14
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:
ERTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
30%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
E N T E R
A G U E Y
T U B E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TUBER in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

TUBER can come back 120 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

380 answers
257 answers
180 answers
147 answers
133 answers
97 answers
95 answers
79 answers
74 answers
67 answers
54 answers
42 answers
41 answers
40 answers
35 answers
31 answers
31 answers
31 answers
28 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1U1B3E1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SALON SLANE CAIRN HOIST PEASE SHALT

Strategy after playing TUBER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TUBER:

16% chance
Suggested:
SALON
11% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
8% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.0% →
SALON 5.86 bits
10.8% →
SLANE 5.49 bits
7.6% →
CAIRN 5.09 bits
6.2% →
HOIST 5.27 bits
5.6% →
PEASE 4.64 bits
4.1% →
SHALT 5.06 bits
4.0% →
SOILY 3.52 bits
3.3% →
ALIEN 4.25 bits
3.1% →
SLUNK 4.71 bits
2.8% →
SADLY 4.14 bits

Research on TUBER

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

Optimal play

Opening with TUBER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,152 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 TUBER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, 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 TOOBUR.

Rhymes with SUBER

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, TUBER is a kind of stem.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
TUBER sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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).