Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

HEAME

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

No dictionary definition for HEAME is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 HEAME performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HEAME 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 79.9% of games, misses completely in 20.1%, and leaves about 187 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,778 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe HEAME 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.

4.59 Entropy (bits)
187 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 58% of evaluated openers
1.35 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HEAME 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#10,778 Rank among openers
Opening with HEAME left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.78 average. It ranks #10,778 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
756
4 guesses
1,219
5 guesses
303
6 guesses
20
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
39%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

HEAME can come back 83 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

478 answers
288 answers
203 answers
154 answers
126 answers
121 answers
94 answers
62 answers
62 answers
62 answers
59 answers
44 answers
41 answers
40 answers
33 answers
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30 answers
25 answers
23 answers
23 answers
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13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4E1A1M3E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing HEAME

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to HEAME.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HEAME:

20% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
12% chance
Suggested:
TALON
9% chance
Suggested:
OLDER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.1%
SOILY 5.72 bits
12.1%
TALON 5.32 bits
8.6%
OLDER 4.78 bits
6.5%
NOIRE 4.40 bits
5.3%
TOUCH 5.07 bits
5.1%
SLANT 4.54 bits
4.0%
ALTER 4.62 bits
2.6%
TUMOR 4.58 bits
2.6%
SAULT 4.23 bits
2.6%
LAIRY 3.79 bits

Research on HEAME

Game-tree analysis and word research for HEAME, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with HEAME, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.76 guesses and ranks #8,839 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 HEAME can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78; proven optimal play reaches 3.76. 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

One syllable Say it HEEM. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.