5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

HICKS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /hɪks/

Noun

plural of hick

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of hick

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 HICKS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HICKS 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 67.4% of games, misses completely in 32.6%, and leaves about 331 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,958 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___S H in the 1st position and S in the 5th position H__K_ H in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ALTER ROATE TRINE DROLE SLATE LEANT
Words starting with H Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.98 Entropy (bits)
331 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 22% of evaluated openers
1.97 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HICKS 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
0.68 Volatility
#7,958 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HICKS ranks #7,958 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
837
4 guesses
1,240
5 guesses
228
6 guesses
12
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:
IS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
17%
All gray
33%

Feedback distribution

75 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

769
270
235
120
116
73
72
70
63
48
45
42
41
29
28
26
24
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11
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8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HICKS:

33% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
11% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.6% →
ALTER 6.10 bits
11.5% →
ROATE 5.68 bits
10.0% →
TRINE 5.55 bits
5.1% →
ROATE 5.53 bits
4.9% →
DROLE 4.73 bits
3.1% →
SLATE 4.82 bits
3.1% →
LEANT 4.73 bits
3.0% →
ROATE 5.18 bits
2.7% →
ROATE 4.48 bits
2.0% →
CLONE 4.24 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4I1C3K5S1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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