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

SUKHS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 76.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of sukh

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 SUKHS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SUKHS 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 54.8% of games, misses completely in 45.2%, and leaves about 548 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,500 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.87 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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First-turn measures

All four describe SUKHS 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.

3.26 Entropy (bits)
548 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
76.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 3% of evaluated openers
2.68 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SUKHS 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.

3.87 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#13,500 Rank among openers
Opening with SUKHS 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 3.87 average. It ranks #13,500 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
29
3 guesses
661
4 guesses
1,290
5 guesses
340
6 guesses
34
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:
SU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
55%
Green tile
26%
All gray
45%

Feedback distribution

SUKHS can come back 56 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1074 answers
204 answers
192 answers
154 answers
120 answers
117 answers
92 answers
44 answers
39 answers
36 answers
29 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1U1K5H4S1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing SUKHS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SUKHS:

45% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
9% chance
Suggested:
PLANE
8% chance
Suggested:
CARTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

45.2%
ARIEL 6.15 bits
8.6%
PLANE 5.37 bits
8.1%
CARTE 5.79 bits
6.5%
TRONE 5.41 bits
5.1%
TIARE 5.45 bits
4.9%
BALER 4.48 bits
3.9%
CRANE 5.36 bits
1.9%
RAILE 4.39 bits
1.6%
PLATE 4.21 bits
1.5%
ATONE 4.05 bits

Research on SUKHS

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

Optimal play

Opening with SUKHS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.91 guesses and ranks #14,031 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 SUKHS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.87, at or below the proven-optimal 3.91, 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 SUHKS. 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.