5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

HUIES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

plural of Huie

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 HUIES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HUIES 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 86.3% of games, misses completely in 13.7%, and leaves about 133 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,282 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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__E_ H in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TALON LEARE ALTER TRAIL SPLAT SLART
Words starting with H Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.98 Entropy (bits)
133 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 82% of evaluated openers
0.97 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HUIES 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#6,282 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HUIES ranks #6,282 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
870
4 guesses
1,177
5 guesses
211
6 guesses
30
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
3 vowels
Common:
EISU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
34%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

96 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

323
291
164
156
127
106
82
78
67
62
54
48
46
44
42
42
40
39
37
33
29
24
21
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14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HUIES:

14% chance
Suggested:
TALON
12% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
7% chance
Suggested:
ALTER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.7% →
TALON 5.62 bits
12.3% →
LEARE 5.56 bits
7.0% →
ALTER 4.37 bits
6.6% →
TRAIL 5.06 bits
5.4% →
SPLAT 5.09 bits
4.5% →
SLART 5.01 bits
3.5% →
MOULT 4.67 bits
3.3% →
SLANT 4.16 bits
2.8% →
MARLE 3.70 bits
2.6% →
TORCH 5.00 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4U1I1E1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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