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UNDUE

Yes, UNDUE was the Wordle answer on November 29, 2022 (Wordle #528).

As an opener, it rules out about 88.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ʌnˈdjuː//ʌnˈduː/

Adjective

Excessive; going beyond that what is natural or sufficient.

“To individuals who despise killings in any form, death penalty is undue punishment.”

Adjective

Which ought not to be done; illegal; unjustified.

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: November 29, 2022 (#528).

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

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How UNDUE performs as a guess

UNDUE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 74.6% of games, misses completely in 25.4%, and leaves about 273 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,049 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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.

U___E U in the 1st position and E in the 5th position U__U_ U in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _N__E N in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

ROAST SOLAR SLART LAIRY SURLY RAVEN
Words starting with U Words ending with E

First-turn measures

3.97 Entropy (bits)
273 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 21% of evaluated openers
1.98 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How UNDUE 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.7% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#12,049 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, UNDUE ranks #12,049 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
669
4 guesses
1,317
5 guesses
286
6 guesses
23
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
3 vowels
Common:
ENU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
27%
All gray
25%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N G
F E T C H
U N D U E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches UNDUE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

69 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

600
359
237
193
157
92
87
74
55
51
49
36
32
30
26
26
23
22
22
19
12
11
10
10
10
9
7
7
6
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UNDUE:

25% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
15% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
10% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.4% →
ROAST 6.04 bits
15.2% →
SOLAR 5.23 bits
10.1% →
SLART 5.36 bits
8.2% →
LAIRY 4.97 bits
6.7% →
SURLY 4.77 bits
3.9% →
RAVEN 4.47 bits
3.7% →
LAIRY 5.14 bits
3.1% →
TREAD 4.72 bits
2.3% →
GAUNT 3.95 bits
2.2% →
SAULT 4.44 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1N1D2U1E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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