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

SUSED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of sus

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 SUSED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SUSED 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 76.4% of games, misses completely in 23.6%, and leaves about 240 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,972 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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 SUSED 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.

4.26 Entropy (bits)
240 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 36% of evaluated openers
1.68 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SUSED 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#10,972 Rank among openers
Opening with SUSED left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.78 average. It ranks #10,972 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
725
4 guesses
1,295
5 guesses
257
6 guesses
26
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
2 vowels
Common:
ESU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
40%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

SUSED can come back 75 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

561 answers
369 answers
200 answers
151 answers
95 answers
93 answers
91 answers
89 answers
82 answers
56 answers
50 answers
47 answers
41 answers
40 answers
29 answers
28 answers
22 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1U1S1E1D2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing SUSED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SUSED:

24% chance
Suggested:
TALON
16% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
8% chance
Suggested:
OATER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.6%
TALON 5.93 bits
15.5%
LEARE 5.47 bits
8.4%
OATER 4.17 bits
6.4%
LAIRY 4.61 bits
4.0%
COUNT 4.84 bits
3.9%
CLARY 4.24 bits
3.8%
PARTE 4.41 bits
3.7%
DROIT 4.89 bits
3.5%
IRATE 4.66 bits
2.4%
TRASH 4.65 bits

Research on SUSED

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

Optimal play

Opening with SUSED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,211 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 SUSED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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 SOOZD. 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.