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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

HUMOR

Yes, HUMOR was the Wordle answer on February 9, 2022 (Wordle #235).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /hjuː.mə(ɹ)//ˈhjuːmɚ//ˈjuːmɚ/

Noun

US spelling of humour.

“He was in a particularly vile humor that afternoon.”

Verb

US spelling of humour.

“I know you don't believe my story, but humor me for a minute and imagine it to be true.”

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: February 9, 2022 (#235).

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

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How HUMOR performs as a guess

HUMOR is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 76.8% of games, misses completely in 23.2%, and leaves about 213 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,920 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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Useful pattern pages

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

H___R H in the 1st position and R in the 5th position H__O_ H in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _U__R U in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

Try next

SLANE IRATE CHEAT ATONE STANE SAINT
Words starting with H Words ending with R

First-turn measures

4.53 Entropy (bits)
213 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.0% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HUMOR 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#5,920 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HUMOR ranks #5,920 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
894
4 guesses
1,141
5 guesses
234
6 guesses
22

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ORU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
24%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G R I N D
F L O O R
H U M O R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches HUMOR in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

96 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

548
283
198
139
110
102
98
86
83
60
43
38
33
31
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30
28
26
23
20
15
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HUMOR:

23% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
12% chance
Suggested:
IRATE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.2% →
SLANE 6.28 bits
12.0% →
IRATE 5.27 bits
8.4% →
SLANE 5.26 bits
5.9% →
CHEAT 5.39 bits
4.7% →
ATONE 4.41 bits
4.3% →
STANE 5.19 bits
4.2% →
SAINT 4.13 bits
3.6% →
STILE 4.85 bits
3.5% →
LIANE 5.31 bits
2.5% →
SLANT 4.53 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4U1M3O1R1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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