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

HOURI

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈhʊəɹi//ˈhaʊəri//ˈhʊɹ.i/

Noun

A beautiful virgin girl supposed to dwell in Paradise for the enjoyment of the faithful.

Noun

Any voluptuous, beautiful woman.

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

Etymology

From French houri, from Persian حوری (hurî), from Arabic حُورِيّ (ḥūriyy) and Arabic حُورِيَّة (ḥūriyya), adjective and feminine singulative of حُور (ḥūr) from Classical Arabic حُورٌ عِينٌ (ḥūrun ʕīnun, “fair maidens, black-eyed ones”). See أَحْوَر m (ʔaḥwar), حَوْرَاء f (ḥawrāʔ) for the base adjective.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use HOURI in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

Open Solver with HOURI Open Word Finder

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 HOURI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HOURI 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 84.0% of games, misses completely in 16.0%, and leaves about 155 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,377 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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.
See strategy patterns

Useful pattern pages

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

H___I H in the 1st position and I in the 5th position H__R_ H in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _O__I O in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe HOURI 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.

4.71 Entropy (bits)
155 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HOURI 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#7,377 Rank among openers
Opening with HOURI left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,377 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
903
4 guesses
1,123
5 guesses
263
6 guesses
21

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
IORU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
26%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

HOURI can come back 82 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

382 answers
268 answers
217 answers
142 answers
138 answers
105 answers
102 answers
91 answers
87 answers
69 answers
59 answers
59 answers
55 answers
49 answers
45 answers
41 answers
29 answers
28 answers
28 answers
26 answers
25 answers
22 answers
22 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4O1U1R1I1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SLATE SLANE CADET SNIDE SALON SADLY

Strategy after playing HOURI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HOURI:

16% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
11% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
9% chance
Suggested:
CADET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.0% →
SLATE 6.06 bits
11.2% →
SLANE 5.56 bits
9.1% →
CADET 5.08 bits
6.0% →
SNIDE 4.41 bits
5.8% →
SALON 5.14 bits
4.4% →
SADLY 4.53 bits
4.3% →
SLANE 4.64 bits
3.8% →
LEAST 5.45 bits
3.6% →
CANOE 4.22 bits
2.9% →
STANE 4.45 bits

Research on HOURI

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

Optimal play

Opening with HOURI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,279 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.90 guesses at best and is rank #4,223 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
HOURI 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).