5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

HEEDY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Heedful; attentive.

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 HEEDY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HEEDY 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 73.0% of games, misses completely in 27.0%, and leaves about 303 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,177 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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___Y H in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position H__D_ H in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _E__Y E in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL RAISE SAULT COAST DRAIN SLART
Words starting with H Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.96 Entropy (bits)
303 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 21% of evaluated openers
1.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HEEDY 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#12,177 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HEEDY ranks #12,177 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
726
4 guesses
1,238
5 guesses
326
6 guesses
23
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
2 vowels
Common:
E

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
34%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

637
439
207
178
116
71
64
63
57
45
37
28
28
26
25
24
21
20
19
19
18
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15
15
14
12
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11
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9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HEEDY:

27% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
19% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
9% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.0% →
TRAIL 6.05 bits
18.6% →
RAISE 5.26 bits
8.8% →
SAULT 4.74 bits
7.5% →
COAST 5.34 bits
4.9% →
DRAIN 5.18 bits
3.0% →
SLART 4.63 bits
2.7% →
SLART 5.02 bits
2.7% →
RAINE 4.51 bits
2.4% →
RANSE 4.22 bits
1.9% →
SAICE 4.52 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4E1E1D2Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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