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

HUERS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of huer

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

Use HUERS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.9% 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 HUERS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HUERS 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 85.7% of games, misses completely in 14.3%, and leaves about 145 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,133 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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 HUERS 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.

4.93 Entropy (bits)
145 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HUERS 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#5,133 Rank among openers
Opening with HUERS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It ranks #5,133 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
63
3 guesses
918
4 guesses
1,124
5 guesses
221
6 guesses
26

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ERSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
24%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

HUERS can come back 101 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

342 answers
282 answers
220 answers
186 answers
153 answers
92 answers
73 answers
66 answers
65 answers
51 answers
40 answers
38 answers
36 answers
36 answers
35 answers
35 answers
32 answers
32 answers
31 answers
28 answers
28 answers
26 answers
25 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4U1E1R1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing HUERS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HUERS:

14% chance
Suggested:
TALON
12% chance
Suggested:
LIANE
9% chance
Suggested:
AINEE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.3% →
TALON 5.88 bits
11.8% →
LIANE 5.41 bits
9.2% →
AINEE 4.34 bits
7.8% →
TRAIN 5.00 bits
6.4% →
SAINT 5.25 bits
3.9% →
SLANT 4.77 bits
3.1% →
PINCH 4.83 bits
2.8% →
FAULT 4.72 bits
2.7% →
MEALY 3.60 bits
2.1% →
SLANT 4.37 bits

Research on HUERS

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

Optimal play

Opening with HUERS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,816 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 HUERS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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).