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

UNDEE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Alternative form of undé.

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 UNDEE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts UNDEE 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 74.6% of games, misses completely in 25.4%, and leaves about 234 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,736 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

First-turn measures

All four describe UNDEE 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.

4.37 Entropy (bits)
234 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 43% of evaluated openers
1.57 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How UNDEE 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#8,736 Rank among openers
Opening with UNDEE left 3 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 3.73 average. It ranks #8,736 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
807
4 guesses
1,208
5 guesses
253
6 guesses
24
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:
ENU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
36%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

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

603 answers
198 answers
195 answers
192 answers
175 answers
124 answers
87 answers
59 answers
57 answers
50 answers
43 answers
42 answers
41 answers
38 answers
38 answers
32 answers
31 answers
26 answers
26 answers
23 answers
19 answers
17 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1N1D2E1E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing UNDEE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UNDEE:

25% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
8% chance
Suggested:
SURLY
8% chance
Suggested:
LAIRY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.4%
ROAST 6.04 bits
8.3%
SURLY 4.89 bits
8.2%
LAIRY 4.97 bits
8.1%
SLART 5.29 bits
7.4%
SLART 5.72 bits
5.2%
ROAST 4.27 bits
3.7%
LAIRY 5.15 bits
2.5%
SHALT 4.03 bits
2.4%
SAULT 4.48 bits
2.1%
REAST 4.24 bits

Research on UNDEE

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

Optimal play

Opening with UNDEE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #7,874 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 UNDEE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, 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

Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it UHNDEE. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.