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AMUSE

Yes, AMUSE was the Wordle answer on October 6, 2025 (Wordle #1570).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /əˈmjuːz/

Verb

To entertain or occupy (someone or something) in a pleasant manner; to stir (someone) with pleasing emotions.

“I watch these movies because they amuse me.”

Verb

To cause laughter or amusement; to be funny.

“His jokes rarely fail to amuse me.”

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: October 6, 2025 (#1570).

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

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How AMUSE performs as a guess

AMUSE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 88.1% of games, misses completely in 11.9%, and leaves about 128 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,978 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

A___E A in the 1st position and E in the 5th position A__S_ A in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _M__E M in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in AMUSE.

First-turn measures

All four describe AMUSE 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.

5.06 Entropy (bits)
128 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 86% of evaluated openers
0.89 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AMUSE 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
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#5,978 Rank among openers
Opening with AMUSE left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #5,978 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
79
3 guesses
844
4 guesses
1,180
5 guesses
229
6 guesses
18
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

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AESU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
33%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S M I L Y
A M U S E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches AMUSE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

AMUSE can come back 106 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

282 answers
275 answers
253 answers
131 answers
110 answers
92 answers
90 answers
81 answers
64 answers
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18 answers
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Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1M3U1S1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

CRONY LINER CAIRN PETAL NOIRE CURLY

Strategy after playing AMUSE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AMUSE:

12% chance
Suggested:
CRONY
12% chance
Suggested:
LINER
11% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.9% →
CRONY 5.61 bits
11.6% →
LINER 5.19 bits
10.7% →
CAIRN 5.18 bits
5.5% →
PETAL 4.67 bits
4.6% →
NOIRE 4.33 bits
3.9% →
CURLY 4.46 bits
3.8% →
SPILT 4.66 bits
3.4% →
SLANT 4.55 bits
2.7% →
CARLE 3.92 bits
2.6% →
STEER 4.41 bits

Research on AMUSE

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

Optimal play

Opening with AMUSE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,209 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 AMUSE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

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

Rhymes with WHOSE VIEWS SHOES BLUES CREWS

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, AMUSE is a kind of entertain or cheer.

Synonyms divert

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
AMUSE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 45 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.

In a sentence

That picture will amuse you.
© tatoeba.org contributor _undertoad (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I had to amuse myself with toys.
© tatoeba.org contributor AlanF_US (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).