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

BHUTS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of bhut

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

Use BHUTS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 87.1% 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 BHUTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BHUTS 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 68.3% of games, misses completely in 31.7%, and leaves about 308 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,268 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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 BHUTS 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.

4.22 Entropy (bits)
308 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How BHUTS 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#5,268 Rank among openers
Opening with BHUTS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It ranks #5,268 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
882
4 guesses
1,185
5 guesses
215
6 guesses
11

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
STU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
26%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

BHUTS can come back 97 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

756 answers
231 answers
214 answers
123 answers
116 answers
95 answers
78 answers
50 answers
47 answers
47 answers
46 answers
46 answers
36 answers
34 answers
32 answers
30 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3H4U1T1S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing BHUTS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BHUTS:

32% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
10% chance
Suggested:
PAIRE
9% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.7% →
ARIEL 6.15 bits
9.7% →
PAIRE 5.59 bits
9.0% →
ARIEL 5.69 bits
5.2% →
PLIER 4.90 bits
4.9% →
PEART 4.90 bits
4.0% →
LIANE 5.32 bits
3.3% →
CARLE 5.25 bits
2.1% →
CLONE 4.40 bits
2.0% →
SAKER 4.19 bits
2.0% →
ARIEL 4.95 bits

Research on BHUTS

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

Optimal play

Opening with BHUTS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,646 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.86 guesses at best and is rank #3,149 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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).