5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

HAUSE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /hɔːs/

Noun

A col, a lower neck or ridge between two peaks: a mountain pass.

Noun

Obsolete form of hawse.

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 HAUSE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HAUSE 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 89.7% of games, misses completely in 10.3%, and leaves about 107 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,472 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___E H in the 1st position and E in the 5th position H__S_ H in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

LINER CRONY TRAIL RANDY GRICE RENAL
Words starting with H Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.28 Entropy (bits)
107 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 94% of evaluated openers
0.67 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HAUSE 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#5,472 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HAUSE ranks #5,472 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
78
3 guesses
890
4 guesses
1,124
5 guesses
235
6 guesses
26
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
3 vowels
Common:
AESU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
40%
All gray
10%

Feedback distribution

113 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

264
244
190
123
104
102
95
80
72
69
56
54
48
45
39
35
34
32
32
30
30
27
25
24
23
19
19
19
18
18

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HAUSE:

11% chance
Suggested:
LINER
10% chance
Suggested:
CRONY
8% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.2% →
LINER 5.20 bits
10.3% →
CRONY 5.37 bits
8.1% →
TRAIL 5.28 bits
5.2% →
RANDY 3.90 bits
4.4% →
GRICE 4.24 bits
4.3% →
RENAL 4.81 bits
4.0% →
CURLY 4.34 bits
3.4% →
SPILT 4.75 bits
3.1% →
TORCH 4.97 bits
2.9% →
GLARE 3.59 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4A1U1S1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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