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

HEAPY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Having lots of heaps or piles.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use HEAPY 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

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How HEAPY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HEAPY 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 86.7% of games, misses completely in 13.3%, and leaves about 161 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,920 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe HEAPY 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.

4.72 Entropy (bits)
161 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HEAPY 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#6,920 Rank among openers
Opening with HEAPY solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.70 average. It ranks #6,920 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
843
4 guesses
1,208
5 guesses
223
6 guesses
19

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
38%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

HEAPY can come back 98 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

358 answers
317 answers
218 answers
158 answers
140 answers
112 answers
105 answers
103 answers
72 answers
67 answers
66 answers
61 answers
53 answers
39 answers
29 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
21 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4E1A1P3Y4
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing HEAPY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HEAPY:

15% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
13% chance
Suggested:
SNORT
9% chance
Suggested:
TALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.0% →
TOILE 5.25 bits
13.3% →
SNORT 5.86 bits
9.1% →
TALON 5.38 bits
6.6% →
ALTER 4.69 bits
5.9% →
DROLE 4.21 bits
4.7% →
TORCH 5.16 bits
4.4% →
SLANT 4.45 bits
4.3% →
SIREN 4.54 bits
3.0% →
SAINT 3.79 bits
2.8% →
TULIP 4.81 bits

Research on HEAPY

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

Optimal play

Opening with HEAPY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,195 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 HEAPY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, because the two figures score different answer lists.

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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).