5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

PLUSH

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /plʌʃ/

Adjective

Very extravagant.

Adjective

Very expensive, or appearing expensive; opulent, luxurious.

“They lived in a plush apartment complex.”

Noun

A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.

Noun

A plush toy.

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 PLUSH performs as a guess

PLUSH is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 71.6% of games, misses completely in 28.4%, and leaves about 255 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,604 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

P___H P in the 1st position and H in the 5th position P__S_ P in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _L__H L in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

TRONE RAILE TIARE RONTE BRACE ROATE
Words starting with P Words ending with H

First-turn measures

4.49 Entropy (bits)
255 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.2% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PLUSH 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#3,604 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PLUSH ranks #3,604 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
958
4 guesses
1,116
5 guesses
210
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
LSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
28%
All gray
28%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PLUSH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

100 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

670
238
161
127
107
104
70
57
57
54
50
47
43
43
42
40
21
20
16
16
16
14
14
13
13
12
11
11
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PLUSH:

28% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
10% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
7% chance
Suggested:
TIARE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.4% →
TRONE 6.05 bits
10.1% →
RAILE 5.32 bits
6.8% →
TIARE 5.54 bits
5.4% →
RONTE 5.10 bits
4.5% →
BRACE 4.97 bits
4.4% →
TIARE 5.72 bits
3.0% →
ROATE 5.03 bits
2.4% →
IRATE 4.64 bits
2.4% →
RIONE 5.01 bits
2.3% →
RAINE 4.51 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3L1U1S1H4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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