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HATER

Yes, HATER was the Wordle answer on June 7, 2023 (Wordle #718).

As an opener, it rules out about 96.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈheɪtə(ɹ)//ˈheɪtɚ/

Noun

One who hates.

Noun

One who expresses unfounded or inappropriate hatred or dislike, particularly if motivated by envy.

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: June 7, 2023 (#718).

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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 HATER performs as a guess

HATER 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 88.6% of games, misses completely in 11.4%, and leaves about 91 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #573 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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___R H in the 1st position and R in the 5th position H__E_ H in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__R A in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe HATER 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.

5.48 Entropy (bits)
91 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 98% of evaluated openers
0.46 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HATER 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#573 Rank among openers
Opening with HATER left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.59 average. It ranks #573 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
87
3 guesses
978
4 guesses
1,114
5 guesses
164
6 guesses
9
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:
AERT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
31%
All gray
11%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches HATER in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

HATER can come back 128 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

270 answers
181 answers
123 answers
116 answers
98 answers
95 answers
90 answers
89 answers
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62 answers
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26 answers
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18 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4A1T1E1R1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Try next

SOLID SEINE SLAIN CRONY POISE SNOUT

Strategy after playing HATER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HATER:

11% chance
Suggested:
SOLID
8% chance
Suggested:
SEINE
5% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.4% →
SOLID 5.58 bits
7.6% →
SEINE 5.38 bits
5.2% →
SLAIN 5.06 bits
4.9% →
CRONY 4.59 bits
4.1% →
POISE 4.47 bits
4.0% →
SNOUT 5.09 bits
3.8% →
SONLY 4.67 bits
3.7% →
SLADE 4.56 bits
3.6% →
SOILY 3.56 bits
3.2% →
BRAND 4.17 bits

Research on HATER

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

Optimal play

Opening with HATER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.61 guesses and ranks #424 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 HATER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.61, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it HAYTUR.

Rhymes with LATER CATER GATOR TATER PATER

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, HATER is a kind of actor.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
HATER sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

In a sentence

He is a woman hater.
© tatoeba.org contributor CM (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Mary is a man-hater.
© tatoeba.org contributor soliloquist (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).