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

PRAHU

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of proa.

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

Use PRAHU in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.0% 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 PRAHU performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PRAHU 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 82.5% of games, misses completely in 17.5%, and leaves about 168 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,658 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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 PRAHU 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.

4.64 Entropy (bits)
168 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PRAHU 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#6,658 Rank among openers
Opening with PRAHU left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.70 average. It ranks #6,658 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
907
4 guesses
1,160
5 guesses
223
6 guesses
24

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ARU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
27%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

PRAHU can come back 77 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

417 answers
283 answers
196 answers
178 answers
123 answers
111 answers
103 answers
100 answers
71 answers
65 answers
53 answers
46 answers
45 answers
45 answers
39 answers
33 answers
30 answers
27 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3R1A1H4U1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing PRAHU

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PRAHU:

17% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
12% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
8% chance
Suggested:
SIREE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.5% →
TOILE 6.05 bits
11.9% →
TOILE 5.21 bits
8.2% →
SIREE 4.92 bits
7.5% →
STILE 5.22 bits
5.2% →
TALER 4.65 bits
4.7% →
CLOTE 5.37 bits
4.3% →
SLICE 5.01 bits
4.2% →
SNIDE 4.58 bits
3.0% →
SORER 4.54 bits
2.7% →
SPIEL 5.09 bits

Research on PRAHU

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

Optimal play

Opening with PRAHU, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,215 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.85 guesses at best and is rank #2,738 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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).