5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

HARED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of hare

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 HARED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HARED 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 87.2% of games, misses completely in 12.8%, and leaves about 107 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,160 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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 STILE SLANT PRINT SONLY TOUCH
Words starting with H Words ending with D

First-turn measures

5.26 Entropy (bits)
107 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 94% of evaluated openers
0.69 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HARED 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#2,160 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HARED ranks #2,160 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
80
3 guesses
947
4 guesses
1,117
5 guesses
199
6 guesses
10
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:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
35%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

118 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

303
191
157
121
112
109
101
98
84
83
68
61
47
45
44
35
35
34
34
29
28
22
21
19
19
18
18
17
17
17

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HARED:

13% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
8% chance
Suggested:
STILE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.8% →
SOILY 5.72 bits
8.1% →
STILE 5.26 bits
6.7% →
SLANT 5.22 bits
5.1% →
PRINT 4.80 bits
4.7% →
SONLY 4.70 bits
4.6% →
SLANT 5.14 bits
4.3% →
TOUCH 5.02 bits
4.2% →
SOILY 3.49 bits
3.6% →
TRIPE 4.41 bits
3.5% →
SLANT 4.46 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4A1R1E1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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