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

FULTH

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /fʊlθ/

Noun

Fullness; abundance; plenty.

Noun

Fill; sufficiency; repletion; satiety.

Alternative forms: fouth

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

Etymology

From Middle English fulth, fulthe; equivalent to full + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare Old English fylleþ (“fullness”, in compounds) and Middle High German vüllede (“fullness”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use FULTH in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 87.9% 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 FULTH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FULTH 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 70.8% of games, misses completely in 29.2%, and leaves about 289 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,460 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 FULTH 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.

4.23 Entropy (bits)
289 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FULTH 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
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#6,460 Rank among openers
Opening with FULTH solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,460 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
882
4 guesses
1,172
5 guesses
232
6 guesses
16

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
LTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
25%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

FULTH can come back 88 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

696 answers
294 answers
251 answers
114 answers
97 answers
81 answers
64 answers
60 answers
57 answers
56 answers
48 answers
39 answers
39 answers
38 answers
28 answers
28 answers
23 answers
23 answers
21 answers
18 answers
18 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4U1L1T1H4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing FULTH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FULTH:

29% chance
Suggested:
RAINE
12% chance
Suggested:
RAINE
11% chance
Suggested:
SOARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.2% →
RAINE 6.15 bits
12.3% →
RAINE 5.39 bits
10.5% →
SOARE 5.76 bits
4.8% →
SACRE 5.61 bits
4.1% →
SNORE 5.29 bits
3.4% →
MARSE 4.43 bits
2.7% →
SAMEY 4.60 bits
2.5% →
SOARE 4.53 bits
2.4% →
PAISE 4.69 bits
2.3% →
SNORE 4.56 bits

Research on FULTH

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

Optimal play

Opening with FULTH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,634 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.85 guesses at best and is rank #2,878 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, 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).