5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

HELED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /hiːld/

Verb

simple past and past participle of hele

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 HELED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HELED 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 75.6% of games, misses completely in 24.4%, and leaves about 226 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,100 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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___D H in the 1st position and D in the 5th position H__E_ H in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _E__D E in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIN ROAST COAST BLASE DROIT SNARY
Words starting with H Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.45 Entropy (bits)
226 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 48% of evaluated openers
1.50 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HELED 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#8,100 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HELED ranks #8,100 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
824
4 guesses
1,203
5 guesses
257
6 guesses
13
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:
EL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
32%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

89 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

575
258
234
163
125
95
87
66
56
46
43
43
38
30
28
28
27
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HELED:

24% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
11% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
10% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.4% →
TRAIN 6.01 bits
10.9% →
ROAST 5.47 bits
9.9% →
COAST 5.04 bits
6.9% →
COAST 5.28 bits
5.3% →
ROAST 4.46 bits
4.0% →
BLASE 4.53 bits
3.7% →
DROIT 5.08 bits
2.8% →
SNARY 4.68 bits
2.4% →
SOILY 4.45 bits
2.0% →
TARSE 4.60 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4E1L1E1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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