5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

HODAD

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Someone who comes to the beach and has a surfboard, but never surfs, or that surfs poorly and annoys the local seasoned surfers.

Alternative forms: ho-dad, hodaddy

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 HODAD performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HODAD 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 75.1% of games, misses completely in 24.9%, and leaves about 286 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,187 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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___D H in the 1st position and D in the 5th position H__A_ H in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

SLIER TARSE TRINE SILER CRISE TALER
Words starting with H Words ending with D

First-turn measures

3.96 Entropy (bits)
286 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 21% of evaluated openers
1.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HODAD 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#12,187 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HODAD ranks #12,187 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
704
4 guesses
1,258
5 guesses
325
6 guesses
19
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
2 vowels
Common:
AO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
27%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

74 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

586
458
200
158
139
100
82
74
69
43
41
40
27
23
21
21
20
18
18
17
15
14
13
12
12
11
8
7
7
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HODAD:

25% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
19% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
8% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.9% →
SLIER 6.08 bits
19.4% →
TARSE 5.45 bits
8.5% →
TRINE 5.25 bits
6.7% →
SILER 4.58 bits
5.9% →
CRISE 5.38 bits
4.2% →
TALER 4.65 bits
3.5% →
BARON 4.62 bits
3.1% →
CARSE 4.61 bits
2.9% →
TRINE 4.96 bits
1.8% →
SLEER 4.30 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4O1D2A1D2
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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