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WUSHU

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

As an opener, it rules out about 76.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈwuːˈʃuː/

Noun

Any Chinese martial art.

Noun

A modern exhibition and full-contact sport based on traditional Chinese martial arts, created in the People's Republic of China. Also known as modern wushu or contemporary wushu.

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 WUSHU performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WUSHU 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 55.1% of games, misses completely in 44.9%, and leaves about 559 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,310 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.93 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

W__H_ W in the 1st position and H in the 4th position _U__U U in the 2nd position and U in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in WUSHU.

First-turn measures

All four describe WUSHU 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.

3.07 Entropy (bits)
559 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
76.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 2% of evaluated openers
2.88 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WUSHU 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.

3.93 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#14,310 Rank among openers
Opening with WUSHU solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.93 average. It ranks #14,310 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
26
3 guesses
571
4 guesses
1,333
5 guesses
391
6 guesses
33
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:
SU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
55%
Green tile
15%
All gray
45%

Feedback distribution

WUSHU can come back 42 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1065 answers
315 answers
175 answers
155 answers
125 answers
78 answers
69 answers
67 answers
55 answers
44 answers
29 answers
25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
20 answers
18 answers
15 answers
11 answers
9 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
2 answers
2 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4U1S1H4U1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

ARIEL STALE CARTE TRONE MARLE STARE

Strategy after playing WUSHU

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WUSHU:

45% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
13% chance
Suggested:
STALE
7% chance
Suggested:
CARTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

44.9% →
ARIEL 6.12 bits
13.3% →
STALE 5.62 bits
7.4% →
CARTE 5.82 bits
6.5% →
TRONE 5.41 bits
5.3% →
MARLE 4.30 bits
3.3% →
STARE 4.66 bits
2.9% →
DRONE 4.91 bits
2.8% →
SAUNT 4.37 bits
2.3% →
BOITE 4.45 bits
1.9% →
ARIEL 4.65 bits

Research on WUSHU

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

Optimal play

Opening with WUSHU, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.96 guesses and ranks #14,501 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.09 guesses at best and is rank #7,060 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.93, at or below the proven-optimal 3.96, 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 WUUSHOO. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
WUSHU sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).