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

ARUHE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

The rhizomes of Pteridium esculentum, used for food by the Maori.

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

Use ARUHE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 96.0% 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 ARUHE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ARUHE 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 90.2% of games, misses completely in 9.8%, and leaves about 96 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,026 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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 ARUHE 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.

5.30 Entropy (bits)
96 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ARUHE 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
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#6,026 Rank among openers
Opening with ARUHE solved every answer in the snapshot within 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 #6,026 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
891
4 guesses
1,161
5 guesses
228
6 guesses
18

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AERU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
36%
All gray
10%

Feedback distribution

ARUHE can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

234 answers
225 answers
172 answers
132 answers
103 answers
95 answers
83 answers
83 answers
69 answers
68 answers
64 answers
61 answers
55 answers
50 answers
48 answers
47 answers
44 answers
41 answers
35 answers
33 answers
33 answers
32 answers
29 answers
27 answers
27 answers
24 answers
24 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1R1U1H4E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing ARUHE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ARUHE:

10% chance
Suggested:
SONLY
9% chance
Suggested:
SONLY
7% chance
Suggested:
INTEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.8% →
SONLY 5.46 bits
9.4% →
SONLY 5.23 bits
7.2% →
INTEL 5.11 bits
5.5% →
RIVET 4.07 bits
4.3% →
SOILY 4.72 bits
4.0% →
SONLY 4.48 bits
3.5% →
METAL 4.69 bits
3.5% →
SOILY 4.25 bits
2.9% →
CLINE 3.61 bits
2.9% →
SLOTH 4.85 bits

Research on ARUHE

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

Optimal play

Opening with ARUHE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,528 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 ARUHE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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).