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HASTE

Yes, HASTE was the Wordle answer on December 3, 2025 (Wordle #1628).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /heɪst/

Noun

Speed; swiftness; dispatch.

“We were running late so we finished our meal in haste.”

Noun

Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.

Verb

To urge onward; to hasten.

Verb

To move with haste.

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: December 3, 2025 (#1628).

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How HASTE performs as a guess

HASTE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 87.8% of games, misses completely in 12.2%, and leaves about 104 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,047 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

H___E H in the 1st position and E in the 5th position H__T_ H in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in HASTE.

First-turn measures

All four describe HASTE 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.

5.40 Entropy (bits)
104 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 97% of evaluated openers
0.55 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HASTE 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#2,047 Rank among openers
Opening with HASTE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #2,047 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
87
3 guesses
921
4 guesses
1,148
5 guesses
188
6 guesses
8
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AEST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
36%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B U T C H
H A S T E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches HASTE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

HASTE can come back 125 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

290 answers
226 answers
162 answers
129 answers
97 answers
96 answers
76 answers
76 answers
72 answers
61 answers
58 answers
57 answers
55 answers
51 answers
49 answers
36 answers
36 answers
32 answers
32 answers
30 answers
30 answers
27 answers
23 answers
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22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4A1S1T1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

COULD OLDER ACORN GOIER SPOIL RANDY

Strategy after playing HASTE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HASTE:

12% chance
Suggested:
COULD
10% chance
Suggested:
OLDER
7% chance
Suggested:
ACORN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.2% →
COULD 5.48 bits
9.5% →
OLDER 5.06 bits
6.8% →
ACORN 4.90 bits
5.4% →
GOIER 4.47 bits
4.1% →
SPOIL 4.94 bits
4.0% →
RANDY 3.98 bits
3.2% →
COURT 4.93 bits
3.2% →
DETER 4.68 bits
3.0% →
RENAL 4.83 bits
2.6% →
GLARE 3.74 bits

Research on HASTE

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

Optimal play

Opening with HASTE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,177 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 HASTE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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

One syllable Say it HAYST.

Rhymes with BASED WASTE TASTE FACED WAIST

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, HASTE is a kind of speed or move.

Synonyms rush HURRY rushing precipitation

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
HASTE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 2 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.1 of 5).

In a sentence

I did it in haste.
© tatoeba.org contributor AlanF_US (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Make haste, and you will be in time.
© tatoeba.org contributor Yeti (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).