5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

TURDS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of turd

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of turd

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 TURDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts TURDS 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 80.8% of games, misses completely in 19.2%, and leaves about 171 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,420 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

T___S T in the 1st position and S in the 5th position T__D_ T 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 CANOE PLANE LATHE HAOLE ANILE
Words starting with T Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.74 Entropy (bits)
171 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 68% of evaluated openers
1.20 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How TURDS 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
99.9% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#1,420 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TURDS ranks #1,420 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
980
4 guesses
1,152
5 guesses
145
6 guesses
16
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
RSTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
23%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

97 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

452
276
197
149
112
96
82
67
65
64
60
57
55
36
34
33
32
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27
23
20
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19
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13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TURDS:

19% chance
Suggested:
ALONE
12% chance
Suggested:
CANOE
8% chance
Suggested:
PLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.2% →
ALONE 6.18 bits
11.7% →
CANOE 5.31 bits
8.4% →
PLANE 5.51 bits
6.3% →
LATHE 5.26 bits
4.7% →
HAOLE 4.78 bits
4.1% →
ANILE 5.55 bits
3.5% →
DIANE 4.87 bits
2.8% →
SPANE 4.79 bits
2.8% →
CANOE 4.82 bits
2.7% →
AINEE 4.50 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1U1R1D2S1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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