5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

HATCH

Yes, HATCH was the Wordle answer on October 10, 2021 (Wordle #113).

As an opener, it rules out about 87.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /hæt͡ʃ/

Noun

A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.

“Moving the wardrobe revealed a previously hidden hatch in the ground.”

Noun

A trapdoor.

Verb

To close with a hatch or hatches.

Verb

To emerge from an egg.

“These three chicks hatched yesterday morning.”

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: October 10, 2021 (#113).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How HATCH performs as a guess

HATCH 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 70.4% of games, misses completely in 29.6%, and leaves about 301 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,782 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___H H in the 1st position and H in the 5th position H__C_ H in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _A__H A in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

RIONE LEARN SIREN SILER LEAST COURE
Words starting with H Words ending with H

First-turn measures

4.02 Entropy (bits)
301 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
87.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 24% of evaluated openers
1.92 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HATCH 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#10,782 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HATCH ranks #10,782 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
763
4 guesses
1,250
5 guesses
269
6 guesses
29
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
27%
All gray
30%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C L I N T
H U M P H
H A T C H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches HATCH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

73 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

698
303
236
160
122
118
53
46
44
43
43
40
33
31
29
28
28
21
21
20
20
18
14
14
13
10
10
9
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HATCH:

30% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
13% chance
Suggested:
LEARN
10% chance
Suggested:
SIREN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.6% →
RIONE 6.01 bits
12.8% →
LEARN 5.42 bits
10.0% →
SIREN 5.64 bits
6.8% →
SILER 4.80 bits
5.2% →
LEAST 4.90 bits
5.0% →
COURE 5.33 bits
2.2% →
SERAL 4.57 bits
2.0% →
SIREN 5.00 bits
1.9% →
TRINE 3.82 bits
1.8% →
LOURE 4.44 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4A1T1C3H4
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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