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

HONKY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A white (Caucasian) person.

Noun

A factory hand or general unskilled worker.

Alternative forms: honkey, honkie

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.

Try your feedback pattern

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___Y H in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position H__K_ H in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

First-turn measures

All four describe HONKY 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.

4.04 Entropy (bits)
312 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 24% of evaluated openers
1.91 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HONKY 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#10,061 Rank among openers
Opening with HONKY left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #10,061 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
769
4 guesses
1,257
5 guesses
258
6 guesses
23
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
1 vowels
Common:
NO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
31%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

HONKY can come back 83 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

744 answers
214 answers
196 answers
188 answers
172 answers
120 answers
71 answers
65 answers
54 answers
53 answers
41 answers
33 answers
30 answers
27 answers
23 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4O1N1K5Y4
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Try next

RAILE SATER ARIEL PALET CRATE MARSE

Strategy after playing HONKY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HONKY:

31% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
SATER
8% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.3% →
RAILE 6.18 bits
9.0% →
SATER 5.26 bits
8.3% →
ARIEL 5.55 bits
7.9% →
PALET 4.79 bits
7.2% →
CRATE 5.70 bits
5.1% →
MARSE 4.89 bits
3.0% →
SWARE 4.46 bits
2.7% →
CARSE 4.87 bits
2.3% →
SILER 4.40 bits
2.2% →
DROLE 3.81 bits