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

USERS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.3% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈjuzɚz/

Noun

plural of user

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 USERS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts USERS 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 82.0% of games, misses completely in 18.0%, and leaves about 205 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,693 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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 USERS 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.

4.22 Entropy (bits)
205 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 34% of evaluated openers
1.73 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How USERS 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#12,693 Rank among openers
Opening with USERS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.83 average. It ranks #12,693 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
702
4 guesses
1,244
5 guesses
330
6 guesses
32
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:
ERSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
17%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

USERS can come back 65 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

428 answers
334 answers
237 answers
215 answers
174 answers
155 answers
102 answers
65 answers
59 answers
54 answers
50 answers
47 answers
44 answers
37 answers
36 answers
33 answers
32 answers
31 answers
27 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

U1S1E1R1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing USERS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing USERS:

18% chance
Suggested:
TALON
14% chance
Suggested:
LIANE
10% chance
Suggested:
AINEE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.0%
TALON 5.85 bits
14.1%
LIANE 5.37 bits
10.0%
AINEE 4.33 bits
9.1%
TRAIN 5.09 bits
7.3%
SAINT 5.23 bits
6.5%
MOULT 4.68 bits
4.3%
SLANT 4.67 bits
2.7%
ELECT 4.42 bits
2.5%
STUNK 4.33 bits
2.3%
GLACE 4.08 bits

Research on USERS

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

Optimal play

Opening with USERS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #12,835 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 USERS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.83, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, 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

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, USERS is a kind of actor or worker.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
USERS sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 63 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.7 of 5).

In a sentence

How many users are currently online?
© tatoeba.org contributor sharris123 (CC BY 2.0 FR)
How many users are active at the moment?
© tatoeba.org contributor carlosalberto (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).