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HITCH

Yes, HITCH was the Wordle answer on May 19, 2024 (Wordle #1065).

As an opener, it rules out about 84.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /hɪt͡ʃ/

Noun

A sudden pull.

Noun

Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope.

Verb

To pull with a jerk.

“She hitched her jeans up and then tightened her belt.”

Verb

To attach, tie or fasten.

“He hitched the bedroll to his backpack and went camping.”

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: May 19, 2024 (#1065).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How HITCH performs as a guess

HITCH 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 65.4% of games, misses completely in 34.6%, and leaves about 365 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,847 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___H H in the 1st position and H in the 5th position H__C_ H in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _I__H I in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

SOARE SLANE CARLE SOLED SNARE LEARY
Words starting with H Words ending with H

First-turn measures

3.81 Entropy (bits)
365 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
84.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 15% of evaluated openers
2.14 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HITCH 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#10,847 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HITCH ranks #10,847 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
31
3 guesses
787
4 guesses
1,219
5 guesses
293
6 guesses
21
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:
IT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
24%
All gray
35%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S H U N T
D E P T H
H I T C H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches HITCH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

65 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

815
280
231
152
115
93
60
57
43
42
39
32
31
31
29
28
27
24
16
14
14
13
12
11
9
9
9
8
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HITCH:

35% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
12% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.6% →
SOARE 6.01 bits
11.9% →
SOARE 5.78 bits
9.8% →
SLANE 5.56 bits
6.4% →
CARLE 5.72 bits
4.9% →
SOLED 4.64 bits
3.9% →
SNARE 4.78 bits
2.5% →
LEARY 4.63 bits
2.4% →
SERAL 4.84 bits
1.8% →
ALURE 4.40 bits
1.8% →
RANSE 4.75 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4I1T1C3H4
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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