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HEATH

Yes, HEATH was the Wordle answer on June 29, 2021 (Wordle #10).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /hiːθ/

Noun

A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.

Noun

Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.

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: June 29, 2021 (#10).

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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 HEATH performs as a guess

HEATH 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 83.1% of games, misses completely in 16.9%, and leaves about 184 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,618 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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___H H in the 1st position and H in the 5th position H__T_ H in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _E__H E in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe HEATH 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.

4.52 Entropy (bits)
184 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 53% of evaluated openers
1.42 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HEATH 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#11,618 Rank among openers
Opening with HEATH left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,618 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
728
4 guesses
1,256
5 guesses
297
6 guesses
26
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
2 vowels
Common:
AET

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
32%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
D E A T H
H E A T H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches HEATH in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

HEATH can come back 81 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

401 answers
353 answers
237 answers
144 answers
135 answers
109 answers
101 answers
98 answers
81 answers
49 answers
41 answers
38 answers
38 answers
38 answers
35 answers
31 answers
29 answers
29 answers
28 answers
25 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4E1A1T1H4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SOILY NOIRE CAROL MARLE SNORT SLEER

Strategy after playing HEATH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HEATH:

17% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
15% chance
Suggested:
NOIRE
10% chance
Suggested:
CAROL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.9% →
SOILY 5.67 bits
14.9% →
NOIRE 5.21 bits
10.0% →
CAROL 5.17 bits
6.1% →
MARLE 4.57 bits
5.7% →
SNORT 5.26 bits
4.6% →
SLEER 4.28 bits
4.3% →
SNARL 4.19 bits
4.1% →
SIREE 4.75 bits
3.4% →
TALON 4.40 bits
2.1% →
GRISE 3.33 bits

Research on HEATH

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

Optimal play

Opening with HEATH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,147 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 HEATH can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it HEETH.

Rhymes with TEETH MEATH

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, HEATH is a kind of bush or waste.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
HEATH sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 6 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

In a sentence

There are many different varieties of heath.
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Heath can be so condescending.
© tatoeba.org contributor shekitten (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).