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

SUSES

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

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.2% of possible answers.

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 SUSES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts SUSES 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 70.9% of games, misses completely in 29.1%, and leaves about 351 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,664 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.99 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 SUSES 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.

3.57 Entropy (bits)
351 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 8% of evaluated openers
2.38 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How SUSES 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.

3.99 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.75 Spread of game lengths
#14,664 Rank among openers
Opening with SUSES left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.75 means those games clustered within about 0.75 of a guess of the 3.99 average. It ranks #14,664 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
513
4 guesses
1,291
5 guesses
456
6 guesses
55
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ESU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
38%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

SUSES can come back 52 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

690 answers
469 answers
243 answers
164 answers
120 answers
111 answers
99 answers
56 answers
55 answers
51 answers
45 answers
34 answers
24 answers
23 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1U1S1E1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing SUSES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SUSES:

29% chance
Suggested:
TALON
20% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
10% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.1%
TALON 5.83 bits
19.8%
LEARE 5.43 bits
10.2%
SOLAR 4.01 bits
6.9%
LAIRY 4.65 bits
5.1%
COUNT 4.83 bits
4.7%
CLARY 4.20 bits
4.2%
PLANE 4.29 bits
2.4%
ROUTE 4.24 bits
2.3%
TRASH 4.51 bits
2.1%
ROATE 4.32 bits

Research on SUSES

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

Optimal play

Opening with SUSES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.96 guesses and ranks #14,496 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 SUSES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.99; proven optimal play reaches 3.96. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it SOOSUHZ. 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.