5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

HADED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of hade

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 HADED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HADED 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 80.5% of games, misses completely in 19.5%, and leaves about 210 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,850 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

H___D H in the 1st position and D in the 5th position H__E_ H in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__D A in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position HA_ED H in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and D in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY SNORE SLART SENOR SONLY TOUCH
Words starting with H Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.27 Entropy (bits)
210 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 37% of evaluated openers
1.68 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HADED 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#12,850 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HADED ranks #12,850 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
692
4 guesses
1,234
5 guesses
359
6 guesses
21
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
32%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

78 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

459
309
259
176
172
147
135
56
50
49
48
47
43
39
26
22
21
20
19
16
15
15
15
13
13
12
12
10
10
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HADED:

19% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
13% chance
Suggested:
SNORE
11% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.5% →
SOILY 5.72 bits
13.1% →
SNORE 5.25 bits
11.0% →
SLART 5.31 bits
7.5% →
SENOR 4.46 bits
7.3% →
SLART 5.28 bits
6.2% →
SONLY 4.65 bits
5.7% →
TOUCH 5.10 bits
2.4% →
SENTE 4.45 bits
2.1% →
LATER 3.15 bits
2.1% →
URINE 4.29 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4A1D2E1D2
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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