5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

HORNY

HORNY is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈhɔːni//ˈhoɹni/

Adjective

Hard or bony, like an animal's horn.

Adjective

Having the hard consistency and pale colour of an animal's horn.

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

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.

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

Try next

SLATE IRATE SAULT ANILE LEAST SALET
Words starting with H Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.74 Entropy (bits)
174 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 68% of evaluated openers
1.21 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HORNY 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
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#4,700 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HORNY ranks #4,700 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
905
4 guesses
1,148
5 guesses
211
6 guesses
21
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
NOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
37%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
D U C H Y
H O R N Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches HORNY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

109 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

446
311
152
135
131
127
98
77
69
58
47
46
43
39
38
32
27
27
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20
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19
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HORNY:

19% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
13% chance
Suggested:
IRATE
6% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.9% →
SLATE 6.44 bits
13.2% →
IRATE 5.17 bits
6.4% →
SAULT 4.78 bits
5.7% →
ANILE 5.18 bits
5.6% →
LEAST 5.46 bits
5.4% →
SALET 5.17 bits
4.2% →
TRADE 4.32 bits
3.3% →
STAGE 4.83 bits
2.9% →
SMILE 4.69 bits
2.5% →
SAUCE 4.96 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4O1R1N1Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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