5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

HERSE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /hɜːs//hɜɹs/

Noun

A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes, hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered to impede the advance of an enemy.

Verb

Alternative form of hearse.

Noun

Obsolete form of hearse (“a carriage for the dead”).

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 HERSE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HERSE 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 80.2% of games, misses completely in 19.8%, and leaves about 166 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,829 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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___E H in the 1st position and E in the 5th position H__S_ H in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

TALON TRAIN SAINT AIDER ALINE ALIEN
Words starting with H Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.90 Entropy (bits)
166 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 78% of evaluated openers
1.05 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HERSE 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#6,829 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HERSE ranks #6,829 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
74
3 guesses
863
4 guesses
1,135
5 guesses
254
6 guesses
25
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:
ERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
38%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

113 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

468
222
175
137
132
128
100
70
66
53
53
45
39
36
34
31
25
21
21
20
19
19
18
18
18
17
17
16
16
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HERSE:

20% chance
Suggested:
TALON
9% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
7% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.8% →
TALON 5.80 bits
9.4% →
TRAIN 5.19 bits
7.4% →
SAINT 5.19 bits
5.8% →
AIDER 3.79 bits
5.6% →
ALINE 4.66 bits
5.4% →
ALIEN 5.26 bits
4.2% →
TOUCH 4.91 bits
3.0% →
PRATE 3.48 bits
2.8% →
DEALT 4.55 bits
2.2% →
PLATE 4.17 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4E1R1S1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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