5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

HEAVE

Yes, HEAVE was the Wordle answer on March 12, 2024 (Wordle #997).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈhiːv/[ˈhɪi̯v]

Verb

To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).

“We heaved the chest-of-drawers up to the second-floor landing.”

Verb

To throw, cast.

“They hove rocks into the pond.”

Noun

An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.

“We gave one more heave and the wall toppled over at last.”

Noun

An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.

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: March 12, 2024 (#997).

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

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How HEAVE performs as a guess

HEAVE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 77.0% of games, misses completely in 23.0%, and leaves about 224 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,185 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.85 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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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

H___E H in the 1st position and E in the 5th position H__V_ H in the 1st position and V in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY TALON SIDER NOIRE TOUCH SLANT
Words starting with H Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.32 Entropy (bits)
224 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 39% of evaluated openers
1.63 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HEAVE 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.

3.85 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.76 Volatility
#13,185 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HEAVE ranks #13,185 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
685
4 guesses
1,204
5 guesses
382
6 guesses
30
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
37%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
K N E E D
H E A V E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches HEAVE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

78 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

543
309
198
158
142
137
101
74
63
56
44
44
33
27
25
24
24
23
23
23
23
22
22
16
13
13
11
10
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HEAVE:

23% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
13% chance
Suggested:
TALON
8% chance
Suggested:
SIDER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.0% →
SOILY 5.68 bits
13.1% →
TALON 5.21 bits
8.4% →
SIDER 5.00 bits
6.7% →
NOIRE 4.35 bits
6.0% →
TOUCH 5.15 bits
5.8% →
SLANT 4.56 bits
4.3% →
ALTER 4.58 bits
3.1% →
MERIT 4.22 bits
2.7% →
SAULT 4.13 bits
2.4% →
SLART 3.53 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4E1A1V4E1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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