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

URDEE

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

No dictionary definition for URDEE is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 URDEE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts URDEE 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 77.0% of games, misses completely in 23.0%, and leaves about 195 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,465 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe URDEE 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.

4.67 Entropy (bits)
195 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 63% of evaluated openers
1.28 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How URDEE 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#6,465 Rank among openers
Opening with URDEE left 3 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 3.69 average. It ranks #6,465 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
868
4 guesses
1,177
5 guesses
225
6 guesses
21
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:
ERU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
42%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

URDEE can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

546 answers
189 answers
169 answers
161 answers
142 answers
106 answers
100 answers
72 answers
68 answers
67 answers
54 answers
46 answers
42 answers
38 answers
37 answers
35 answers
34 answers
31 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
16 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1R1D2E1E1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing URDEE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing URDEE:

23% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
8% chance
Suggested:
SONLY
7% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.0%
SLANT 5.96 bits
8.0%
SONLY 4.90 bits
7.1%
COAST 5.36 bits
6.8%
SLANT 5.37 bits
6.0%
SLANT 5.45 bits
4.5%
SAINT 4.54 bits
4.2%
SAINT 3.75 bits
3.0%
ALIEN 4.19 bits
2.9%
DAILY 4.83 bits
2.8%
SLART 4.45 bits

Research on URDEE

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

Optimal play

Opening with URDEE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,239 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 URDEE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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 URDEE. 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.