5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

HARPY

HARPY is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 92.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈhɑɹpi//ˈhɑːpi/

Noun

A mythological creature generally depicted as a bird-of-prey with the head of a maiden, a face pale with hunger and long claws on her hands personifying the destructive power of storm winds.

Noun

A shrewish woman.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 HARPY performs as a guess

HARPY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 81.3% of games, misses completely in 18.7%, and leaves about 182 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,463 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___Y H in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position H__P_ H in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE TRIED SLATE TRADE SIDLE SUITE
Words starting with H Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.62 Entropy (bits)
182 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 60% of evaluated openers
1.33 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HARPY 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#4,463 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HARPY ranks #4,463 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
70
3 guesses
890
4 guesses
1,171
5 guesses
207
6 guesses
14
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:
AR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
33%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C A R R Y
H A R D Y
H A R P Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches HARPY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

106 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

441
277
246
152
131
128
114
82
53
52
50
48
41
40
31
26
25
24
23
19
17
16
16
15
14
14
13
13
11
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HARPY:

19% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
12% chance
Suggested:
TRIED
10% chance
Suggested:
SLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.7% →
TOILE 6.18 bits
11.7% →
TRIED 5.26 bits
10.4% →
SLATE 5.51 bits
6.4% →
TRADE 4.67 bits
5.6% →
SIDLE 4.67 bits
5.4% →
SUITE 5.36 bits
4.8% →
TOILE 4.62 bits
3.5% →
STILE 5.26 bits
2.2% →
POISE 4.48 bits
2.2% →
NOISE 4.73 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4A1R1P3Y4
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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