5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

HAVAN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A ritual, rooted in the Vedic religion, in which offerings of food etc. are burnt in order to bring good luck on a special occasion.

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 HAVAN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HAVAN 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 66.2% of games, misses completely in 33.8%, and leaves about 357 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,810 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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___N H in the 1st position and N in the 5th position H__A_ H in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__N A in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE SLATE TOISE TORSE CLEAR GLARE
Words starting with H Words ending with N

First-turn measures

3.77 Entropy (bits)
357 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 14% of evaluated openers
2.18 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HAVAN 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#12,810 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HAVAN ranks #12,810 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
688
4 guesses
1,272
5 guesses
323
6 guesses
30
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
27%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

69 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

798
250
234
177
159
102
65
59
58
38
38
34
29
27
24
23
21
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14
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11
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8
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7
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HAVAN:

34% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
11% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
10% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.8% →
TOILE 5.98 bits
10.6% →
SLATE 5.46 bits
9.9% →
TOISE 5.47 bits
7.5% →
TORSE 5.56 bits
6.7% →
TORSE 4.80 bits
4.3% →
CLEAR 4.59 bits
2.8% →
GLARE 4.38 bits
2.5% →
CORSE 4.44 bits
2.5% →
SOLER 4.69 bits
1.6% →
GORSE 4.89 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4A1V4A1N1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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