5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

AHURU

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Auchenoceros punctatus, a morid cod found around New Zealand.

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 AHURU performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AHURU 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 78.8% of games, misses completely in 21.2%, and leaves about 243 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,957 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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.

A__R_ A in the 1st position and R in the 4th position

Try next

TOILE LEANT NOISE TRIER STILE CLOTE
Words starting with A Words ending with U

First-turn measures

4.03 Entropy (bits)
243 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 24% of evaluated openers
1.92 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How AHURU 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#12,957 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, AHURU ranks #12,957 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
28
3 guesses
722
4 guesses
1,231
5 guesses
333
6 guesses
36
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:
ARU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
23%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

55 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

500
370
298
196
143
85
82
68
63
59
49
45
40
34
31
27
24
23
22
20
19
17
14
13
12
9
9
8
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AHURU:

21% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
16% chance
Suggested:
LEANT
13% chance
Suggested:
NOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.2% →
TOILE 6.08 bits
15.7% →
LEANT 5.32 bits
12.6% →
NOISE 5.03 bits
8.3% →
TRIER 4.29 bits
6.1% →
STILE 5.11 bits
3.6% →
TOILE 4.85 bits
3.5% →
CLOTE 5.03 bits
2.9% →
SURER 4.60 bits
2.7% →
STONE 4.16 bits
2.5% →
STILE 4.93 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1H4U1R1U1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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