5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

HUHUS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 71.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of huhu

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 HUHUS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HUHUS 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 50.4% of games, misses completely in 49.6%, and leaves about 672 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,696 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.01 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 _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ARIEL TIARE TRICE MARLE TRONE SLATE
Words starting with H Words ending with S

First-turn measures

2.74 Entropy (bits)
672 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
71.5% Avg ruled out
In the bottom 1% for first-turn entropy
3.21 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HUHUS 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.

4.01 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#14,696 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HUHUS ranks #14,696 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
26
3 guesses
504
4 guesses
1,300
5 guesses
470
6 guesses
52
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
SU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
50%
Green tile
15%
All gray
50%

Feedback distribution

42 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1169
383
166
124
113
82
47
47
46
33
22
20
14
12
10
9
6
5
5
5
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
2

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HUHUS:

50% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
16% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
7% chance
Suggested:
TRICE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

49.6% →
ARIEL 6.11 bits
16.2% →
TIARE 5.66 bits
7.0% →
TRICE 5.65 bits
5.3% →
MARLE 4.30 bits
4.8% →
TRONE 5.22 bits
3.5% →
SLATE 4.61 bits
2.0% →
TRONE 4.55 bits
2.0% →
SLANT 4.25 bits
2.0% →
LEARY 4.74 bits
1.4% →
STRAE 3.94 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4U1H4U1S1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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