5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

HELPS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /hɛlps/

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of help

Noun

plural of help

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 HELPS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HELPS 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 82.5% of games, misses completely in 17.5%, and leaves about 173 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,182 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___S H in the 1st position and S in the 5th position H__P_ H in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIN ORATE CORAL SAINT ARENE STAIR
Words starting with H Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.67 Entropy (bits)
173 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 63% of evaluated openers
1.28 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HELPS 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#4,182 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HELPS ranks #4,182 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
878
4 guesses
1,219
5 guesses
177
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ELS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
20%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

93 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

413
327
190
156
126
103
100
100
59
50
43
42
41
39
35
34
33
29
27
24
24
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14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HELPS:

18% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
14% chance
Suggested:
ORATE
8% chance
Suggested:
CORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.5% →
TRAIN 6.02 bits
13.9% →
ORATE 5.22 bits
8.1% →
CORAL 5.03 bits
6.6% →
SAINT 5.41 bits
5.3% →
ARENE 4.54 bits
4.4% →
STAIR 4.93 bits
4.2% →
RAINY 4.50 bits
4.2% →
TORCH 5.18 bits
2.5% →
PATIO 4.99 bits
2.1% →
SHART 4.22 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4E1L1P3S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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