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

SOHUR

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of suhur.

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

Use SOHUR in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% 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 SOHUR performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SOHUR 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 81.5% of games, misses completely in 18.5%, and leaves about 157 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,510 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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 SOHUR 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.

4.90 Entropy (bits)
157 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SOHUR 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#4,510 Rank among openers
Opening with SOHUR solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,510 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
941
4 guesses
1,112
5 guesses
218
6 guesses
23

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ORSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
36%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

SOHUR can come back 104 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

440 answers
254 answers
140 answers
134 answers
129 answers
118 answers
106 answers
91 answers
82 answers
73 answers
51 answers
38 answers
37 answers
35 answers
35 answers
33 answers
29 answers
28 answers
26 answers
26 answers
24 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1O1H4U1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing SOHUR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SOHUR:

18% chance
Suggested:
ALINE
11% chance
Suggested:
TRADE
6% chance
Suggested:
PLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.5% →
ALINE 6.08 bits
10.7% →
TRADE 5.31 bits
5.9% →
PLANE 5.52 bits
5.6% →
ALINE 4.92 bits
5.4% →
ALINE 5.39 bits
4.9% →
CHEAT 5.24 bits
4.4% →
LEANT 4.54 bits
3.8% →
LEANT 3.87 bits
3.4% →
DAINE 4.29 bits
3.1% →
PALET 5.13 bits

Research on SOHUR

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

Optimal play

Opening with SOHUR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,654 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with SOHUR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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).