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

HAUNT

Yes, HAUNT was the Wordle answer on July 26, 2025 (Wordle #1498).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /hɔːnt//hɔnt//hɑnt/

Verb

To inhabit or to visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).

“A couple of ghosts haunt the old, burnt-down house.”

Verb

To make uneasy, restless.

“The memory of his past failures haunted him.”

Noun

A place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout.

“The shopping mall is a popular haunt of the local teenagers in this town.”

Noun

A lair or feeding place of animals.

Alternative forms: hant, ha'nt, haint, harnt

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: July 26, 2025 (#1498).

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

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How HAUNT performs as a guess

HAUNT 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 81.1% of games, misses completely in 18.9%, and leaves about 154 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,602 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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Useful pattern pages

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

H___T H in the 1st position and T in the 5th position H__N_ H in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _A__T A in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

DROLE BLARE SILER TORSE SLIER SERAL
Words starting with H Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.96 Entropy (bits)
154 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 81% of evaluated openers
0.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HAUNT 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#1,602 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HAUNT ranks #1,602 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
1,007
4 guesses
1,083
5 guesses
187
6 guesses
15
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
35%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C L I N T
D O U G H
H A U N T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches HAUNT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

109 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

445
247
134
132
124
102
75
74
68
62
56
53
51
49
47
44
42
28
27
26
25
21
20
17
16
16
15
15
14
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HAUNT:

19% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
10% chance
Suggested:
BLARE
6% chance
Suggested:
SILER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.9% →
DROLE 6.05 bits
10.5% →
BLARE 5.38 bits
5.7% →
SILER 4.78 bits
5.6% →
SILER 5.23 bits
5.3% →
SILER 4.84 bits
4.3% →
TORSE 5.16 bits
3.2% →
SLIER 5.09 bits
3.1% →
SERAL 4.88 bits
2.9% →
CRISE 5.24 bits
2.6% →
ALOSE 4.53 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4A1U1N1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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