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HEXYL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Any of many isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C₆H₁₃, formally derived from hexane by the loss of a hydrogen atom

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 HEXYL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HEXYL 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 79.2% of games, misses completely in 20.8%, and leaves about 267 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,604 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.87 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

H___L H in the 1st position and L in the 5th position _E__L E in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe HEXYL 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.

3.87 Entropy (bits)
267 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 17% of evaluated openers
2.08 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HEXYL 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.

3.87 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#13,604 Rank among openers
Opening with HEXYL left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.87 average. It ranks #13,604 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
638
4 guesses
1,311
5 guesses
327
6 guesses
41
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:
EL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
19%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

HEXYL can come back 55 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

493 answers
484 answers
204 answers
173 answers
156 answers
152 answers
114 answers
81 answers
76 answers
68 answers
35 answers
34 answers
33 answers
26 answers
24 answers
23 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
12 answers
11 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4E1X8Y4L1
Total: 18 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Try next

TRAIN ARISE SAUNT COAST TORCH ALOSE

Strategy after playing HEXYL

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HEXYL:

21% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
20% chance
Suggested:
ARISE
9% chance
Suggested:
SAUNT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.8% →
TRAIN 6.24 bits
20.4% →
ARISE 5.36 bits
8.6% →
SAUNT 4.83 bits
7.3% →
COAST 5.10 bits
6.6% →
TORCH 5.31 bits
6.4% →
ALOSE 4.52 bits
4.8% →
STAIR 4.82 bits
3.4% →
SONAR 4.52 bits
3.2% →
DALLY 4.03 bits
2.9% →
TARSE 4.94 bits

Research on HEXYL

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

Optimal play

Opening with HEXYL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.87 guesses and ranks #13,276 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.04 guesses at best and is rank #6,717 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.87, at or below the proven-optimal 3.87, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it HEHKSUHL. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
HEXYL sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).