Possible answer Not used yet F tier for first-turn info

HUSSY

HUSSY is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 81.6% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈhʌsi//ˈhʌzi/

Noun

A sexually immoral woman.

Noun

A cheeky or disrespectful girl; a woman showing inappropriate or improper behavior.

Alternative forms: huzzy

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

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

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

How HUSSY performs as a guess

HUSSY 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 60.8% of games, misses completely in 39.2%, and leaves about 437 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,080 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 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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First-turn measures

All four describe HUSSY 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.

3.60 Entropy (bits)
437 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
81.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 9% of evaluated openers
2.34 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HUSSY 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#13,080 Rank among openers
Opening with HUSSY left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.85 average. It ranks #13,080 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
691
4 guesses
1,251
5 guesses
337
6 guesses
35
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
SU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
61%
Green tile
30%
All gray
39%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches HUSSY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

HUSSY can come back 69 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

930 answers
221 answers
218 answers
163 answers
157 answers
86 answers
63 answers
54 answers
53 answers
41 answers
34 answers
30 answers
29 answers
27 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
17 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4U1S1S1Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing HUSSY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HUSSY:

39% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
9% chance
Suggested:
PLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

39.2%
ARIEL 6.17 bits
9.3%
PLATE 5.45 bits
9.2%
TALER 4.87 bits
6.9%
TRICE 5.69 bits
6.6%
TRONE 5.41 bits
3.6%
LATER 4.85 bits
2.7%
ROATE 4.87 bits
2.3%
SLANT 4.19 bits
2.2%
IRATE 4.49 bits
1.7%
MARLE 3.08 bits

Research on HUSSY

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

Optimal play

Opening with HUSSY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.89 guesses and ranks #13,655 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 HUSSY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.85, at or below the proven-optimal 3.89, 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 HUHSEE.

Rhymes with FUSSY GUSSY

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, HUSSY is a kind of woman or whore.

Synonyms ho jade slut hoe

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
HUSSY sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

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).