HAVEN
Yes, HAVEN was the Wordle answer on October 18, 2025 (Wordle #1582).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈheɪvən/
- Noun
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A safe place.
- Noun
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A peaceful or tranquil place.
- Verb
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To put into, or provide with a haven.
- Verb
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plural simple present of have
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English haven, havene, from Old English hæfen (“haven; harbour; port”), from Proto-West Germanic *habanu, from Proto-Germanic *habnō, *habanō (compare Dutch haven, German Hafen, Norwegian/Danish havn, Swedish hamn, French havre), from Proto-Germanic *habą (“sea”) (compare Old English hæf, Middle Low German haf, Old Norse haf (“sea”), German Haff (“bay or lagoon behind a spit”), perhaps, in the sense of "heaving sea", etymologically identical with Old Norse haf (“heaving, lifting, upl…
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How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it HAYVUHN.
Related meanings
Synonyms harbor harbour OASIS
In a sentence
He's like a safe haven for me.
Monaco is a tax haven.
Use HAVEN in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 93.2% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: October 18, 2025 (#1582).
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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HAVEN appeared in SANCTUARY (yellow group).
How HAVEN performs as a guess
HAVEN is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 83.6% of games, misses completely in 16.4%, and leaves about 161 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,234 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe HAVEN 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How HAVEN 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches HAVEN in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
HAVEN can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for HAVEN; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing HAVEN
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to HAVEN.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing HAVEN:
Research on HAVEN
Game-tree analysis and word research for HAVEN, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with HAVEN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #7,010 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 HAVEN can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.75; proven optimal play reaches 3.73. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.
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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- HAVEN sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 13 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 10, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 55 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.0 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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).