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HOBBY

Yes, HOBBY was the Wordle answer on July 24, 2023 (Wordle #765).

As an opener, it rules out about 79.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈhɒ.bi//ˈhɑ.bi/

Noun

An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time.

“I like to collect stamps from different countries as a hobby.”

Noun

An extinct breed of horse native to the British Isles, also known as the Irish Hobby.

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: July 24, 2023 (#765).

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How HOBBY performs as a guess

HOBBY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 59.1% of games, misses completely in 40.9%, and leaves about 488 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,278 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.93 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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__B_ H in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe HOBBY 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.

3.27 Entropy (bits)
488 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
79.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 4% of evaluated openers
2.67 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HOBBY 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.

3.93 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.75 Spread of game lengths
#14,278 Rank among openers
Opening with HOBBY left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.75 means those games clustered within about 0.75 of a guess of the 3.93 average. It ranks #14,278 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
31
3 guesses
620
4 guesses
1,225
5 guesses
442
6 guesses
34
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
59%
Green tile
29%
All gray
41%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S C O L D
B O U G H
H O B B Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches HOBBY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

HOBBY can come back 56 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

970 answers
282 answers
232 answers
201 answers
153 answers
99 answers
53 answers
41 answers
33 answers
30 answers
28 answers
26 answers
25 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4O1B3B3Y4
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Try next

RAILE SANER RAISE CRATE TALER ALINE

Strategy after playing HOBBY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HOBBY:

41% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
12% chance
Suggested:
SANER
10% chance
Suggested:
RAISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

40.9% →
RAILE 6.15 bits
11.9% →
SANER 5.17 bits
9.8% →
RAISE 4.72 bits
8.5% →
CRATE 5.62 bits
6.4% →
TALER 4.74 bits
4.2% →
ALINE 5.27 bits
2.2% →
DROLE 3.86 bits
1.7% →
TARSE 4.44 bits
1.4% →
LATER 4.56 bits
1.3% →
ALONE 3.99 bits

Research on HOBBY

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

Optimal play

Opening with HOBBY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.92 guesses and ranks #14,132 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.10 guesses at best and is rank #7,116 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.93; proven optimal play reaches 3.92. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it HAHBEE.

Rhymes with BOBBY LOBBY DOBIE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, HOBBY is a kind of interest or toy.

Synonyms pursuit sideline

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
HOBBY sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 9 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.0 of 5).

In a sentence

Do you have a hobby?
© tatoeba.org contributor al_ex_an_der (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I need a new hobby.
© tatoeba.org contributor mailohilohi (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).