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Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

HEMPS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of hemp

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 HEMPS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HEMPS 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 77.0% of games, misses completely in 23.0%, and leaves about 243 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,936 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.
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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

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

First-turn measures

All four describe HEMPS 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.

4.28 Entropy (bits)
243 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 37% of evaluated openers
1.67 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HEMPS 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% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#7,936 Rank among openers
Opening with HEMPS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #7,936 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
822
4 guesses
1,245
5 guesses
224
6 guesses
16
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
18%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

HEMPS can come back 75 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

545 answers
416 answers
185 answers
124 answers
118 answers
103 answers
73 answers
71 answers
59 answers
54 answers
48 answers
47 answers
39 answers
37 answers
30 answers
29 answers
29 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4E1M3P3S1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

TONAL ARIEL SAINT DEARE STAIR TORCH

Strategy after playing HEMPS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HEMPS:

23% chance
Suggested:
TONAL
18% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
8% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.0% →
TONAL 5.95 bits
17.5% →
ARIEL 5.19 bits
7.8% →
SAINT 5.42 bits
5.2% →
DEARE 4.54 bits
5.0% →
STAIR 4.98 bits
4.3% →
TORCH 5.11 bits
3.1% →
MOLAR 4.91 bits
3.0% →
PAINT 4.98 bits
2.5% →
SLART 4.36 bits
2.3% →
PLIER 4.46 bits

Research on HEMPS

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

Optimal play

Opening with HEMPS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,687 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.85 guesses at best and is rank #2,864 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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 HEHMPS. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, HEMPS is a kind of fiber or bush.

Synonyms cannabis

Familiarity and learning

Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.8 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).