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

PUSLE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of puzzel (“harlot”).

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

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 PUSLE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PUSLE 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 83.0% of games, misses completely in 17.0%, and leaves about 149 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,995 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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___E P in the 1st position and E in the 5th position P__L_ P in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _U__E U in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIN TENOR TONAL ROAST GRACE RENAL
Words starting with P Words ending with E

First-turn measures

All four describe PUSLE 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.

5.04 Entropy (bits)
149 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 85% of evaluated openers
0.91 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PUSLE 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#1,995 Rank among openers
Opening with PUSLE left 2 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 3.62 average. It ranks #1,995 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
85
3 guesses
949
4 guesses
1,113
5 guesses
187
6 guesses
18
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
36%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

PUSLE can come back 117 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

402 answers
292 answers
143 answers
139 answers
137 answers
107 answers
69 answers
67 answers
66 answers
54 answers
49 answers
46 answers
40 answers
38 answers
38 answers
33 answers
32 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PUSLE:

17% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
12% chance
Suggested:
TENOR
6% chance
Suggested:
TONAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.0% →
TRAIN 6.03 bits
12.4% →
TENOR 5.13 bits
6.1% →
TONAL 5.03 bits
5.9% →
ROAST 5.35 bits
5.8% →
GRACE 4.40 bits
4.5% →
RENAL 4.49 bits
2.9% →
RAINY 4.08 bits
2.8% →
ROAST 4.40 bits
2.8% →
GRUNT 4.88 bits
2.3% →
STEER 4.52 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3U1S1L1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

The science of PUSLE

What game-tree analysis and word research measure about PUSLE — each figure with what it means.

Optimal play

Opening with PUSLE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses — rank #1,534 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.79 guesses at best — rank #1,032 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62 — at or below the proven-optimal 3.65 only 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) — not the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable — say it PUHSUHL. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.