5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

HANGS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of hang

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 HANGS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HANGS 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 78.2% of games, misses completely in 21.8%, and leaves about 199 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,757 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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___S H in the 1st position and S in the 5th position H__G_ H in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE ALERT PORTE TRICE PEART DROLE
Words starting with H Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.54 Entropy (bits)
199 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 54% of evaluated openers
1.41 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HANGS 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#3,757 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HANGS ranks #3,757 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
935
4 guesses
1,186
5 guesses
174
6 guesses
13
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ANS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
23%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

83 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

515
270
219
140
128
102
95
63
55
53
52
46
44
36
33
32
31
30
30
24
23
21
21
20
18
16
15
13
13
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HANGS:

22% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
11% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
9% chance
Suggested:
PORTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.8% →
TOILE 6.03 bits
11.5% →
ALERT 5.51 bits
9.3% →
PORTE 5.60 bits
5.9% →
TOILE 5.31 bits
5.4% →
TRICE 4.59 bits
4.3% →
TRICE 5.51 bits
4.0% →
PEART 4.88 bits
2.7% →
DROLE 5.24 bits
2.3% →
DRICE 4.55 bits
2.2% →
TUILE 4.35 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4A1N1G2S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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