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Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

HIVED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /haɪvd/

Verb

simple past and past participle of hive

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 HIVED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HIVED 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 76.7% of games, misses completely in 23.3%, and leaves about 241 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,082 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

H___D H in the 1st position and D in the 5th position H__E_ H in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__D I in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe HIVED 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.

4.30 Entropy (bits)
241 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 38% of evaluated openers
1.65 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HIVED 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% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#8,082 Rank among openers
Opening with HIVED solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #8,082 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
794
4 guesses
1,266
5 guesses
232
6 guesses
8
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
2 vowels
Common:
EI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
27%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

HIVED can come back 85 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

553 answers
367 answers
213 answers
170 answers
145 answers
85 answers
70 answers
69 answers
65 answers
62 answers
41 answers
40 answers
29 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4I1V4E1D2
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

SALON SLART SLANT SOLAR COAST STIRE

Strategy after playing HIVED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HIVED:

23% chance
Suggested:
SALON
15% chance
Suggested:
SLART
9% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.3% →
SALON 5.84 bits
15.5% →
SLART 5.88 bits
9.0% →
SLANT 5.60 bits
7.2% →
SOLAR 4.66 bits
6.1% →
COAST 5.35 bits
3.6% →
STIRE 4.33 bits
2.9% →
DEARE 4.78 bits
2.9% →
DANDY 4.47 bits
2.7% →
TEASE 4.82 bits
2.6% →
SONLY 4.23 bits

Research on HIVED

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

Optimal play

Opening with HIVED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,029 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with HIVED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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

One syllable Say it HYVD. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, HIVED is a kind of multitude or container.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
HIVED 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.9 of 5).

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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).