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

KHUDS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of khud

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

Use KHUDS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 84.1% 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 KHUDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts KHUDS 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 65.1% of games, misses completely in 34.9%, and leaves about 378 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,050 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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 KHUDS 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.

3.75 Entropy (bits)
378 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How KHUDS 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#10,050 Rank among openers
Opening with KHUDS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #10,050 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
772
4 guesses
1,280
5 guesses
250
6 guesses
17

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
SU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
18%
All gray
35%

Feedback distribution

KHUDS can come back 64 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

832 answers
315 answers
200 answers
155 answers
138 answers
79 answers
59 answers
54 answers
46 answers
46 answers
45 answers
43 answers
34 answers
34 answers
33 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

K5H4U1D2S1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Strategy after playing KHUDS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing KHUDS:

35% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
13% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
8% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.9% →
ARIEL 6.14 bits
13.2% →
ROATE 5.68 bits
8.4% →
ARIEL 5.80 bits
6.5% →
RAILE 4.87 bits
5.8% →
CARTE 5.46 bits
3.3% →
CRANE 5.33 bits
2.5% →
TRAPE 4.81 bits
2.3% →
TRICE 5.05 bits
1.9% →
RIONE 4.50 bits
1.9% →
SURGE 4.46 bits

Research on KHUDS

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

Optimal play

Opening with KHUDS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,109 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 KHUDS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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).