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HUMAN

Yes, HUMAN was the Wordle answer on January 13, 2023 (Wordle #573).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈhjuː.mən/[ˈçju̟mən][ˈçju̟mn̩]

Adjective

Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives.

Adjective

Having the nature or attributes of a human being.

“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”

Noun

A highly intelligent ape with fine and short body hair; the most abundant species of primate, with members found on every continent (Homo sapiens).

“Humans share common ancestors with other apes.”

Noun

Any hominid of the genus Homo.

Alternative forms: humane

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: January 13, 2023 (#573).

See the full page for that puzzle: January 13, 2023 (#573).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How HUMAN performs as a guess

HUMAN is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 77.5% of games, misses completely in 22.5%, and leaves about 222 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,089 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

H___N H in the 1st position and N in the 5th position H__A_ H in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _U__N U in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe HUMAN 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.

4.39 Entropy (bits)
222 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 45% of evaluated openers
1.55 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HUMAN 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#7,089 Rank among openers
Opening with HUMAN left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.70 average. It ranks #7,089 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
848
4 guesses
1,204
5 guesses
226
6 guesses
19
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
24%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

R O A T E
N A S A L
H U M A N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches HUMAN in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

HUMAN can come back 89 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

534 answers
367 answers
162 answers
124 answers
102 answers
102 answers
100 answers
89 answers
75 answers
68 answers
62 answers
56 answers
51 answers
41 answers
31 answers
27 answers
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22 answers
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18 answers
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13 answers
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12 answers
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10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4U1M3A1N1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

SOLER TARSE TOILE CRISE TALER STORE

Strategy after playing HUMAN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HUMAN:

22% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
15% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
7% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.5% →
SOLER 6.01 bits
15.5% →
TARSE 5.59 bits
6.8% →
TOILE 5.20 bits
5.2% →
CRISE 5.49 bits
4.3% →
TALER 4.78 bits
4.3% →
STORE 5.46 bits
4.2% →
SLIER 4.81 bits
3.7% →
TRACE 4.40 bits
3.2% →
POIRE 5.22 bits
2.9% →
REAST 4.57 bits

Research on HUMAN

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

Optimal play

Opening with HUMAN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #7,037 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.84 guesses at best and is rank #2,663 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it HYOOMUHN.

Rhymes with LUMEN CUMIN RUMEN

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, HUMAN is a kind of primate.

Synonyms man homo weak imperfect FRAIL

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
HUMAN sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 224 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 91 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.7 of 5).

In a sentence

What is a human being?
© tatoeba.org contributor shekitten (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I want you to be human.
© tatoeba.org contributor ddnktr (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).