Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

HUSOS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of huso

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use HUSOS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 85.3% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No 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.

How HUSOS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HUSOS 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 67.1% of games, misses completely in 32.9%, and leaves about 351 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,904 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe HUSOS 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.

3.80 Entropy (bits)
351 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HUSOS 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#12,904 Rank among openers
Opening with HUSOS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.84 average. It ranks #12,904 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
695
4 guesses
1,243
5 guesses
336
6 guesses
34

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
20%
All gray
33%

Feedback distribution

HUSOS can come back 72 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

785 answers
304 answers
235 answers
133 answers
122 answers
110 answers
93 answers
74 answers
62 answers
49 answers
41 answers
38 answers
32 answers
31 answers
22 answers
18 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4U1S1O1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing HUSOS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HUSOS:

33% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
13% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
10% chance
Suggested:
PEART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.9% →
RAILE 6.13 bits
12.8% →
ARIEL 5.04 bits
9.9% →
PEART 5.68 bits
5.6% →
CRATE 5.57 bits
5.1% →
LEANT 5.13 bits
4.6% →
RAILE 4.59 bits
3.9% →
TALER 4.93 bits
3.1% →
STORE 4.50 bits
2.6% →
SERAL 4.55 bits
2.1% →
SAUNT 4.17 bits

Research on HUSOS

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

Optimal play

Opening with HUSOS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.87 guesses and ranks #13,160 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.02 guesses at best and is rank #6,479 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.84, at or below the proven-optimal 3.87, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).