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

SNUSH

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

No dictionary definition for SNUSH is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 84.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 SNUSH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SNUSH 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 64.0% of games, misses completely in 36.0%, and leaves about 381 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,574 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

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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 _N__H N in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in SNUSH.

First-turn measures

All four describe SNUSH 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.

3.84 Entropy (bits)
381 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 16% of evaluated openers
2.10 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SNUSH 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,574 Rank among openers
Opening with SNUSH 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 3.77 average. It ranks #10,574 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
800
4 guesses
1,209
5 guesses
278
6 guesses
30
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
NSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
34%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

SNUSH can come back 69 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

854 answers
278 answers
181 answers
154 answers
117 answers
67 answers
66 answers
62 answers
47 answers
46 answers
44 answers
42 answers
28 answers
27 answers
25 answers
25 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1N1U1S1H4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

ARIEL PLATE MARLE TIARE TRAPE ROATE

Strategy after playing SNUSH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SNUSH:

36% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
12% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
8% chance
Suggested:
PLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

36.0% →
ARIEL 6.11 bits
11.7% →
ARIEL 5.45 bits
7.6% →
PLATE 5.55 bits
6.5% →
MARLE 4.81 bits
4.9% →
TIARE 5.59 bits
2.8% →
TRAPE 5.06 bits
2.8% →
ROATE 4.79 bits
2.6% →
TRACE 4.97 bits
2.0% →
WAITE 4.54 bits
1.9% →
ARIEL 4.82 bits

Research on SNUSH

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

Optimal play

Opening with SNUSH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,327 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.99 guesses at best and is rank #5,985 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it SNUHSH. 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.