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

RUKHS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of rukh

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

Use RUKHS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 88.4% 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 RUKHS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts RUKHS 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 74.4% of games, misses completely in 25.6%, and leaves about 277 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,748 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 RUKHS 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.

4.07 Entropy (bits)
277 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How RUKHS 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
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#9,748 Rank among openers
Opening with RUKHS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #9,748 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
823
4 guesses
1,204
5 guesses
268
6 guesses
25

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
RSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
15%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

RUKHS can come back 66 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

611 answers
403 answers
243 answers
123 answers
97 answers
89 answers
82 answers
64 answers
61 answers
60 answers
57 answers
49 answers
42 answers
36 answers
34 answers
27 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

R1U1K5H4S1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing RUKHS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing RUKHS:

26% chance
Suggested:
ALONE
17% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
10% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.6% →
ALONE 6.14 bits
16.9% →
ARIEL 5.18 bits
10.2% →
TOILE 5.65 bits
5.2% →
COATE 5.47 bits
4.1% →
ATONE 4.97 bits
3.7% →
STOAE 5.20 bits
3.4% →
BLITE 4.50 bits
2.7% →
LEANT 4.39 bits
2.6% →
SLATE 4.92 bits
2.5% →
COATE 5.04 bits

Research on RUKHS

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

Optimal play

Opening with RUKHS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #9,465 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.89 guesses at best and is rank #3,958 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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).