5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

SMUSH

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

As an opener, it rules out about 79.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /smʌʃ//smʊʃ/

Noun

A beaten or pulverized mass.

“The steamroller left her pie an unrecognizable smush.”

Noun

An act of crushing or squeezing.

Verb

To mash or push down or in; compress

“His favorite part of making preserves with his mother was when he got to smush the raw fruit with the pestle.”

Verb

To engage in intimate contact, especially sexual relations.

Alternative forms: smoosh

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 SMUSH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SMUSH 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 57.6% of games, misses completely in 42.4%, and leaves about 483 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,278 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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.

S___H S in the 1st position and H in the 5th position S__S_ S in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _M__H M in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

ARIEL PLANE RAILE MORAE TIARE TRONE
Words starting with S Words ending with H

First-turn measures

3.55 Entropy (bits)
483 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
79.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 8% of evaluated openers
2.40 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SMUSH 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#12,278 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SMUSH ranks #12,278 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
718
4 guesses
1,252
5 guesses
309
6 guesses
32
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
SU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
58%
Green tile
32%
All gray
42%

Feedback distribution

70 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1000
215
169
150
129
76
72
71
48
47
30
28
23
22
20
19
15
13
13
12
12
12
12
10
10
10
9
7
7
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SMUSH:

42% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
9% chance
Suggested:
PLANE
7% chance
Suggested:
RAILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

42.4% →
ARIEL 6.15 bits
9.1% →
PLANE 5.40 bits
7.2% →
RAILE 4.88 bits
6.4% →
MORAE 5.42 bits
5.5% →
TIARE 5.68 bits
3.2% →
TRONE 4.86 bits
3.1% →
IRATE 4.67 bits
3.0% →
ROATE 5.05 bits
2.0% →
TALER 4.81 bits
2.0% →
RAILE 4.29 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1M3U1S1H4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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