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HEAST

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Obsolete form of hest.

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 HEAST performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HEAST 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 87.8% of games, misses completely in 12.2%, and leaves about 108 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #614 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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___T H in the 1st position and T in the 5th position H__S_ H in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _E__T E in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

COULD DROLE CAROL LARGE SPOIL GENRE
Words starting with H Words ending with T

First-turn measures

All four describe HEAST 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.

5.47 Entropy (bits)
108 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 98% of evaluated openers
0.48 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HEAST 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#614 Rank among openers
Opening with HEAST left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.59 average. It ranks #614 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
80
3 guesses
983
4 guesses
1,124
5 guesses
159
6 guesses
7
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:
AEST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
36%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

HEAST can come back 132 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

288 answers
264 answers
191 answers
117 answers
90 answers
87 answers
66 answers
61 answers
53 answers
51 answers
51 answers
49 answers
47 answers
45 answers
37 answers
34 answers
31 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
24 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HEAST:

12% chance
Suggested:
COULD
11% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
8% chance
Suggested:
CAROL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.2% →
COULD 5.48 bits
11.2% →
DROLE 5.27 bits
8.1% →
CAROL 5.20 bits
5.0% →
LARGE 4.67 bits
3.8% →
SPOIL 4.78 bits
3.7% →
GENRE 4.18 bits
2.8% →
CRINE 4.04 bits
2.6% →
PLIER 4.59 bits
2.2% →
TITAN 4.24 bits
2.2% →
TRITE 4.66 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4E1A1S1T1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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