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HUMID

Yes, HUMID was the Wordle answer on June 2, 2023 (Wordle #713).

As an opener, it rules out about 86.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈhjuːmɪd/

Adjective

Containing perceptible moisture (usually describing air or atmosphere); damp; moist; somewhat wet or watery.

“humid earth”

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: June 2, 2023 (#713).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 2, 2023 (#713).

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

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How HUMID performs as a guess

HUMID 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 67.7% of games, misses completely in 32.3%, and leaves about 321 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,517 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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___D H in the 1st position and D in the 5th position H__I_ H in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _U__D U in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe HUMID 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.

4.07 Entropy (bits)
321 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
86.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 26% of evaluated openers
1.87 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HUMID 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
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#7,517 Rank among openers
Opening with HUMID left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,517 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
845
4 guesses
1,224
5 guesses
224
6 guesses
16
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:
IU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
22%
All gray
32%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
C U M I N
H U M I D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches HUMID in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

HUMID can come back 81 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

766 answers
271 answers
158 answers
146 answers
114 answers
108 answers
90 answers
82 answers
59 answers
56 answers
43 answers
39 answers
32 answers
30 answers
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20 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4U1M3I1D2
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

TARSE TRINE SLATE SLANT DROLE SOARE

Strategy after playing HUMID

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HUMID:

32% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
11% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.3% →
TARSE 6.27 bits
11.4% →
TRINE 5.39 bits
6.7% →
SLATE 5.70 bits
6.1% →
SLANT 5.33 bits
4.8% →
DROLE 5.38 bits
4.5% →
SOARE 5.38 bits
3.8% →
LATER 4.68 bits
3.5% →
TALER 4.92 bits
2.5% →
WRITE 4.30 bits
2.4% →
DROLE 4.45 bits

Research on HUMID

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

Optimal play

Opening with HUMID, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,562 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 HUMID can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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 HYOOMUHD.

Related meanings

Synonyms wet

Opposites dry

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
HUMID sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.

In a sentence

It's too humid for me.
© tatoeba.org contributor Eccles17 (CC BY 2.0 FR)
The air is very humid.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (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.