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HIPPY

HIPPY is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 80.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈhɪpi/

Noun

Alternative spelling of hippie.

Adjective

Having large or prominent hips.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 HIPPY performs as a guess

HIPPY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 60.6% of games, misses completely in 39.4%, and leaves about 461 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,503 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.

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___Y H in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position H__P_ H in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _I__Y I in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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ROATE LEANT SORAL CRATE SLANE RONTE
Words starting with H Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.38 Entropy (bits)
461 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
80.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 5% of evaluated openers
2.57 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HIPPY 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
99.9% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#13,503 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HIPPY ranks #13,503 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
669
4 guesses
1,240
5 guesses
367
6 guesses
36
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
1 vowels
Common:
I

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
61%
Green tile
27%
All gray
39%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
P O U N D
H I P P Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches HIPPY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

65 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

929
310
226
192
127
112
47
41
34
34
26
25
22
21
20
20
18
17
11
8
8
7
6
6
6
5
5
5
5
4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HIPPY:

39% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
13% chance
Suggested:
LEANT
10% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

39.4% →
ROATE 6.02 bits
13.1% →
LEANT 5.36 bits
9.6% →
SORAL 4.80 bits
8.1% →
CRATE 5.74 bits
5.4% →
SLANE 5.47 bits
4.7% →
RONTE 4.80 bits
2.0% →
SATER 4.52 bits
1.7% →
TRACE 4.36 bits
1.4% →
SIDLE 3.13 bits
1.4% →
TARSE 4.68 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4I1P3P3Y4
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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