5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

HEALS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /hiːlz/

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of heal

Noun

plural of heal

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 HEALS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HEALS 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 89.4% of games, misses completely in 10.6%, and leaves about 105 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,953 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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___S H in the 1st position and S in the 5th position H__L_ H in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRODE DROIT RAYON SNORT TARGE SPIRE
Words starting with H Words ending with S

First-turn measures

5.29 Entropy (bits)
105 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 95% of evaluated openers
0.66 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HEALS 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#1,953 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HEALS ranks #1,953 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
82
3 guesses
931
4 guesses
1,155
5 guesses
173
6 guesses
12
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:
AELS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
31%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

114 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

252
250
179
126
97
92
89
89
85
72
71
53
45
44
41
34
33
32
32
31
29
26
25
21
21
20
20
19
17
17

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HEALS:

11% chance
Suggested:
TRODE
11% chance
Suggested:
DROIT
8% chance
Suggested:
RAYON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.7% →
TRODE 5.20 bits
10.6% →
DROIT 5.70 bits
7.6% →
RAYON 4.96 bits
5.3% →
SNORT 5.15 bits
4.1% →
TARGE 4.50 bits
3.9% →
SPIRE 4.88 bits
3.8% →
CLOUT 4.49 bits
3.8% →
TOUCH 5.03 bits
3.6% →
DETER 4.46 bits
3.1% →
TONAL 4.53 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4E1A1L1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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