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

HOMED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈhoʊmd//ˈhəʊmd/

Adjective

Having a home, or homes

Verb

simple past and past participle of home

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 HOMED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HOMED 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 80.7% of games, misses completely in 19.3%, and leaves about 194 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,502 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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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 _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position HO_ED H in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe HOMED 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.

4.59 Entropy (bits)
194 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 58% of evaluated openers
1.35 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HOMED 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#4,502 Rank among openers
Opening with HOMED solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,502 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
880
4 guesses
1,235
5 guesses
175
6 guesses
9
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:
EO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
30%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

HOMED can come back 93 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

458 answers
364 answers
177 answers
173 answers
116 answers
96 answers
74 answers
72 answers
65 answers
65 answers
54 answers
50 answers
35 answers
34 answers
31 answers
27 answers
25 answers
24 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4O1M3E1D2
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SAINT SLART ARSON STAIR CHART SALTY

Strategy after playing HOMED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HOMED:

19% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
15% chance
Suggested:
SLART
7% chance
Suggested:
ARSON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.3% →
SAINT 6.22 bits
15.3% →
SLART 5.86 bits
7.5% →
ARSON 5.25 bits
7.3% →
STAIR 4.59 bits
4.9% →
CHART 5.08 bits
4.0% →
SALTY 4.49 bits
3.1% →
GEARE 4.61 bits
3.0% →
SCARY 4.79 bits
2.7% →
SLANT 4.26 bits
2.7% →
TEASE 4.73 bits

Research on HOMED

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

Optimal play

Opening with HOMED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #3,918 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 HOMED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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 HOHMD.

Rhymes with DOMED

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, HOMED is a kind of residence or housing.

Synonyms HOUSE PLACE family national base internal

Opposites away foreign

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
HOMED sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.0 of 5).

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).