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

HAPUS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of hapu

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 HAPUS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HAPUS 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 77.6% of games, misses completely in 22.4%, and leaves about 213 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,999 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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__U_ H in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

LINER ALERT TRINE RONTE BRINE WRITE
Words starting with H Words ending with S

First-turn measures

All four describe HAPUS 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.

4.44 Entropy (bits)
213 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 48% of evaluated openers
1.51 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HAPUS 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#6,999 Rank among openers
Opening with HAPUS 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 3.70 average. It ranks #6,999 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
865
4 guesses
1,181
5 guesses
236
6 guesses
18
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
2 vowels
Common:
ASU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
21%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

HAPUS can come back 84 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

529 answers
315 answers
171 answers
163 answers
162 answers
101 answers
86 answers
65 answers
57 answers
53 answers
45 answers
40 answers
40 answers
34 answers
32 answers
31 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
23 answers
22 answers
18 answers
18 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HAPUS:

22% chance
Suggested:
LINER
13% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
7% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.4% →
LINER 5.90 bits
13.3% →
ALERT 5.47 bits
7.2% →
TRINE 4.70 bits
6.9% →
RONTE 5.55 bits
6.9% →
BRINE 4.94 bits
4.3% →
WRITE 5.35 bits
3.6% →
LEANT 4.83 bits
2.8% →
PRONE 5.03 bits
2.4% →
SPITE 4.54 bits
2.2% →
STUNG 4.08 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4A1P3U1S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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