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

UREID

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Any of several classes of (mostly heterocyclic) compounds derived from urea

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use UREID in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How UREID performs as a guess

Wordle accepts UREID 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 86.9% of games, misses completely in 13.1%, and leaves about 134 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,763 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe UREID 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)
134 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How UREID 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#3,763 Rank among openers
Opening with UREID left 4 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 3.65 average. It ranks #3,763 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
70
3 guesses
941
4 guesses
1,101
5 guesses
219
6 guesses
19

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EIRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
27%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

UREID can come back 108 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

313 answers
276 answers
182 answers
173 answers
165 answers
120 answers
82 answers
80 answers
67 answers
61 answers
50 answers
47 answers
47 answers
38 answers
36 answers
34 answers
31 answers
29 answers
29 answers
24 answers
24 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1R1E1I1D2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing UREID

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing UREID:

13% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
12% chance
Suggested:
LEASE
8% chance
Suggested:
PATEE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.1% →
SLANT 5.75 bits
11.6% →
LEASE 5.41 bits
7.6% →
PATEE 4.68 bits
7.3% →
SLANT 5.31 bits
6.9% →
SONLY 4.94 bits
5.0% →
COAST 5.03 bits
3.4% →
SLANE 4.51 bits
3.4% →
SHALT 5.28 bits
2.8% →
SLANT 4.26 bits
2.6% →
COAST 4.86 bits

Research on UREID

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

Optimal play

Opening with UREID, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,500 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 UREID can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).