HUSKY
HUSKY is on the solver's possible-answer list and has no appearance in our globally completed Wordle history.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈhʌs.ki/
- Adjective
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Of a voice, hoarse and rough-sounding; throaty.
- Adjective
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Burly, stout; sometimes as a modifier for boys' clothing sizes that fit a large waist or chest.
- Noun
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Any of several breeds of dogs used as sled dogs.
Alternative forms: huskie
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Shortening of husky dog, where husky is ultimately from the same Old Montagnais root as Eskimo.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it HUHSKEE.
Rhymes with MUSKY
Related meanings
Synonyms robust
Opposites FRAIL
In a sentence
Tom's dog is a husky.
Tom's voice is low and husky.
Use HUSKY in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 84.2% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.
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See what the public sample says →HUSKY in Connections
3 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #892
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HUSKY appeared in STOCKY (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #416
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HUSKY appeared in RASPY (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #22
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HUSKY appeared in DOG BREEDS (yellow group).
How HUSKY performs as a guess
HUSKY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 64.6% of games, misses completely in 35.4%, and leaves about 377 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,299 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe HUSKY 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How HUSKY 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches HUSKY in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
HUSKY can come back 75 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for HUSKY; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing HUSKY
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to HUSKY.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing HUSKY:
Research on HUSKY
Game-tree analysis and word research for HUSKY, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with HUSKY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,734 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 HUSKY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- HUSKY sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.9 of 5).
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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).