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HAVEN

Yes, HAVEN was the Wordle answer on October 18, 2025 (Wordle #1582).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈheɪvən/

Noun

A safe place.

Noun

A peaceful or tranquil place.

Verb

To put into, or provide with a haven.

Verb

plural simple present of have

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: October 18, 2025 (#1582).

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

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How HAVEN performs as a guess

HAVEN is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 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 160 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

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__E_ H in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__N A in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

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

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.

4.69 Entropy (bits)
160 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 65% of evaluated openers
1.25 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

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.

3.75 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#9,234 Rank among openers
Opening with HAVEN solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It ranks #9,234 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
761
4 guesses
1,255
5 guesses
250
6 guesses
22
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:
AEN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
30%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
L A D E N
W H A C K
H A V E N

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:

389 answers
263 answers
208 answers
166 answers
150 answers
131 answers
114 answers
109 answers
76 answers
53 answers
48 answers
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39 answers
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27 answers
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22 answers
18 answers
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16 answers
16 answers
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14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4A1V4E1N1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

LORIS STIRE SLART OLDER SOILY TOUCH

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:

16% chance
Suggested:
LORIS
11% chance
Suggested:
STIRE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.4% →
LORIS 5.66 bits
11.1% →
STIRE 5.15 bits
8.8% →
SLART 5.41 bits
7.0% →
SLART 5.20 bits
6.3% →
OLDER 4.10 bits
5.5% →
SOILY 4.85 bits
4.8% →
TOUCH 5.16 bits
4.6% →
SATYR 4.02 bits
3.2% →
SEINE 4.69 bits
2.2% →
SLANG 3.95 bits

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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it HAYVUHN.

Rhymes with RAVEN MAVEN

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, HAVEN is a kind of shelter or port.

Synonyms harbor harbour OASIS

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).

In a sentence

He's like a safe haven for me.
© tatoeba.org contributor Nuel (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Monaco is a tax haven.
© tatoeba.org contributor Hybrid (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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).