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

FUROS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of furo

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

Use FUROS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% 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 FUROS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FUROS 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 79.1% of games, misses completely in 20.9%, and leaves about 202 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,063 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 FUROS 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.

4.53 Entropy (bits)
202 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FUROS 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#6,063 Rank among openers
Opening with FUROS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after 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 #6,063 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
866
4 guesses
1,184
5 guesses
229
6 guesses
12

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ORSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
25%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

FUROS can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

499 answers
285 answers
245 answers
201 answers
103 answers
86 answers
71 answers
68 answers
65 answers
59 answers
49 answers
43 answers
43 answers
39 answers
35 answers
33 answers
28 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4U1R1O1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing FUROS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FUROS:

21% chance
Suggested:
LANCE
12% chance
Suggested:
CADET
10% chance
Suggested:
PLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.9% →
LANCE 6.10 bits
12.0% →
CADET 5.38 bits
10.3% →
PLATE 5.83 bits
8.4% →
LIANE 5.12 bits
4.3% →
WRATE 4.12 bits
3.6% →
PLACE 4.18 bits
3.0% →
LEANT 4.94 bits
2.9% →
SCOTE 4.45 bits
2.7% →
SPATE 4.72 bits
2.5% →
MATEY 4.58 bits

Research on FUROS

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

Optimal play

Opening with FUROS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,839 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 #2,858 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 3.73, 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).