5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

HIDES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /haɪdz/

Noun

plural of hide

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of hide

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 HIDES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HIDES 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 84.0% of games, misses completely in 16.0%, and leaves about 151 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,782 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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__E_ H in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TALON LEARE SLANT LATER CAIRN SLART
Words starting with H Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.82 Entropy (bits)
151 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 73% of evaluated openers
1.13 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HIDES 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#4,782 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HIDES ranks #4,782 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
872
4 guesses
1,213
5 guesses
189
6 guesses
14
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
2 vowels
Common:
EIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
26%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

95 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

377
281
171
157
156
123
90
76
67
60
59
56
54
42
35
32
26
24
23
21
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16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HIDES:

16% chance
Suggested:
TALON
12% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.0% →
TALON 5.87 bits
11.9% →
LEARE 5.47 bits
7.3% →
SLANT 5.17 bits
6.7% →
LATER 4.45 bits
6.6% →
CAIRN 5.32 bits
5.2% →
SLART 5.04 bits
3.8% →
TORCH 5.06 bits
3.2% →
DRAWN 4.94 bits
2.8% →
TRINE 4.48 bits
2.5% →
STINK 4.48 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4I1D2E1S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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