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Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

HAULS

HAULS is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of haul

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

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 HAULS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HAULS as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 81.9% of games, misses completely in 18.1%, and leaves about 156 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,992 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

H___S H in the 1st position and S in the 5th position H__L_ H in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe HAULS 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.

4.83 Entropy (bits)
156 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 74% of evaluated openers
1.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HAULS 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,992 Rank among openers
Opening with HAULS 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 3.64 average. It ranks #2,992 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
978
4 guesses
1,116
5 guesses
198
6 guesses
12
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:
ALSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
28%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

HAULS can come back 92 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

429 answers
208 answers
179 answers
147 answers
142 answers
134 answers
124 answers
102 answers
85 answers
48 answers
41 answers
40 answers
38 answers
35 answers
32 answers
32 answers
29 answers
28 answers
25 answers
25 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
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19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
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16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4A1U1L1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

TRIED TRONE RONTE NOIRE REACT RIONE

Strategy after playing HAULS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HAULS:

18% chance
Suggested:
TRIED
9% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
8% chance
Suggested:
TRONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.1% →
TRIED 6.02 bits
8.8% →
TRONE 5.65 bits
7.5% →
TRONE 5.58 bits
6.2% →
RONTE 4.87 bits
6.0% →
NOIRE 4.97 bits
5.6% →
REACT 4.59 bits
5.2% →
RIONE 4.77 bits
4.3% →
TRICE 5.47 bits
3.6% →
PEART 5.03 bits
2.0% →
DILLY 4.37 bits

Research on HAULS

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

Optimal play

Opening with HAULS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,330 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,666 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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 HAWLZ.

Rhymes with CALLS FALLS WALLS BALLS HALLS

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, HAULS is a kind of pull or amount.

Synonyms CATCH draw drag cart hale

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
HAULS sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.1 of 5).

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).