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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).

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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 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 70.3% of games, misses completely in 29.7%, and leaves about 303 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,782 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___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

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

First-turn measures

All four describe HATCH 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.

4.02 Entropy (bits)
303 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 opening guess: previous 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,782 Rank among openers
Opening with HATCH left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.78 average. It 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 (3.46 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

HATCH can come back 73 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

704 answers
303 answers
238 answers
161 answers
122 answers
119 answers
54 answers
47 answers
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21 answers
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10 answers
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8 answers
8 answers

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.

Try next

RIONE LEARN SIREN SLYER LEAST COURE

Strategy after playing HATCH

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

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.

29.7% →
RIONE 6.03 bits
12.8% →
LEARN 5.42 bits
10.0% →
SIREN 5.65 bits
6.8% →
SLYER 4.93 bits
5.1% →
LEAST 4.90 bits
5.0% →
COURE 5.34 bits
2.3% →
SERAL 4.62 bits
2.0% →
SIREN 5.00 bits
1.9% →
NOIRE 4.56 bits
1.9% →
TRINE 3.82 bits

Research on HATCH

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

Optimal play

Opening with HATCH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,450 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 HATCH can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, 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 HACH.

Rhymes with MATCH CATCH PATCH BATCH LATCH

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, HATCH is a kind of birth or shading.

Synonyms COVER BROOD hatching BREED

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
HATCH sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 7 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 B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 75 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.7 of 5).

In a sentence

We need to get this hatch open.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
The eggs are ready to hatch.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (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; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).