5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

HABUS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of habu

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 HABUS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HABUS 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 77.7% of games, misses completely in 22.3%, and leaves about 220 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,238 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

H___S H in the 1st position and S in the 5th position H__U_ H in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

LINER ALERT SPITE TRINE TUILE TRICE
Words starting with H Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.33 Entropy (bits)
220 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 41% of evaluated openers
1.62 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HABUS 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#8,238 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HABUS ranks #8,238 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
815
4 guesses
1,232
5 guesses
246
6 guesses
11
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ASU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
21%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

81 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

526
311
216
167
160
110
105
67
61
45
44
39
37
34
32
31
27
25
24
19
17
15
14
13
13
12
12
11
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HABUS:

22% chance
Suggested:
LINER
13% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
9% chance
Suggested:
SPITE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.3% →
LINER 5.94 bits
13.2% →
ALERT 5.53 bits
9.2% →
SPITE 5.50 bits
7.1% →
TRINE 4.73 bits
6.8% →
TUILE 5.10 bits
4.7% →
TRICE 5.50 bits
4.5% →
PEART 4.85 bits
2.8% →
DROLE 4.88 bits
2.6% →
STUNG 4.09 bits
1.9% →
WRITE 4.68 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4A1B3U1S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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