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GUSHY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌʃi/

Adjective

Gushing; effusive and often emotional.

Adjective

Tending to gush, to produce a large flow of liquid.

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How GUSHY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GUSHY 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 67.5% of games, misses completely in 32.5%, and leaves about 335 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,714 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

G___Y G in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position G__H_ G in the 1st position and H in the 4th position _U__Y U in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe GUSHY 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.

3.93 Entropy (bits)
335 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.01 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GUSHY 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#9,714 Rank among openers
Opening with GUSHY left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #9,714 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
797
4 guesses
1,222
5 guesses
266
6 guesses
23
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
1 vowels
Common:
SU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
28%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

GUSHY can come back 78 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

772 answers
287 answers
191 answers
163 answers
135 answers
98 answers
83 answers
66 answers
60 answers
60 answers
40 answers
36 answers
33 answers
24 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2U1S1H4Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

ARIEL TIARE TALER COATE TRONE RAINE

Strategy after playing GUSHY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GUSHY:

33% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
12% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
8% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.5% →
ARIEL 6.19 bits
12.1% →
TIARE 5.60 bits
8.0% →
TALER 4.91 bits
6.9% →
COATE 5.76 bits
5.7% →
TRONE 5.36 bits
4.1% →
RAINE 5.45 bits
3.5% →
STRAE 4.76 bits
2.8% →
LATER 4.91 bits
2.5% →
SAUNT 4.35 bits
2.5% →
IRADE 4.98 bits

Research on GUSHY

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

Optimal play

Opening with GUSHY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,630 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 GUSHY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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 first syllable Say it GUHSHEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GUSHY sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.3 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).