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

LUXES

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of lux

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of lux

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

Use LUXES in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% 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 LUXES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LUXES 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 80.5% of games, misses completely in 19.5%, and leaves about 202 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,779 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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 LUXES 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.

4.31 Entropy (bits)
202 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How LUXES 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#11,779 Rank among openers
Opening with LUXES left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,779 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
707
4 guesses
1,269
5 guesses
296
6 guesses
27

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
26%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

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

465 answers
318 answers
193 answers
188 answers
168 answers
133 answers
117 answers
81 answers
80 answers
63 answers
51 answers
48 answers
44 answers
44 answers
39 answers
28 answers
27 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

L1U1X8E1S1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Strategy after playing LUXES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LUXES:

20% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
13% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
8% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.5% →
TRAIN 6.03 bits
13.3% →
TIARE 5.42 bits
8.1% →
ROAST 5.33 bits
7.9% →
FLAIL 4.97 bits
7.0% →
OATER 4.18 bits
5.6% →
STAIR 4.75 bits
4.9% →
BEARE 4.49 bits
3.4% →
COURT 4.95 bits
3.4% →
RAINY 3.97 bits
2.6% →
STALL 4.49 bits

Research on LUXES

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

Optimal play

Opening with LUXES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,082 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 LUXES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, 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).