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

HAHAS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 82.6% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of haha

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 HAHAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HAHAS 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 64.1% of games, misses completely in 35.9%, and leaves about 412 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,369 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.94 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

First-turn measures

All four describe HAHAS 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.

3.39 Entropy (bits)
412 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 5% of evaluated openers
2.55 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HAHAS 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.

3.94 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#14,369 Rank among openers
Opening with HAHAS left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.94 average. It ranks #14,369 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
571
4 guesses
1,289
5 guesses
414
6 guesses
41
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:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
23%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

HAHAS can come back 55 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

853 answers
303 answers
262 answers
193 answers
148 answers
104 answers
94 answers
62 answers
49 answers
34 answers
30 answers
29 answers
27 answers
27 answers
25 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
11 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
2 answers
2 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4A1H4A1S1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing HAHAS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HAHAS:

36% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
13% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
11% chance
Suggested:
ALERT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.9%
RIONE 5.98 bits
12.8%
TOILE 5.41 bits
11.0%
ALERT 5.32 bits
8.1%
TRINE 4.81 bits
6.2%
CONTE 5.24 bits
4.4%
CLEAR 4.46 bits
4.0%
LEANT 4.56 bits
2.6%
ROUET 4.47 bits
2.1%
STILE 4.20 bits
1.4%
SLYER 3.43 bits

Research on HAHAS

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

Optimal play

Opening with HAHAS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.95 guesses and ranks #14,433 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 HAHAS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.94, at or below the proven-optimal 3.95, 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 HAHHAHS. 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.