Possible answer Not used yet C tier for first-turn info

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.

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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe HORNY 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.

4.74 Entropy (bits)
175 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 opening guess: previous 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#4,700 Rank among openers
Opening with HORNY left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It 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 (3.46 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

HORNY can come back 109 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

448 answers
313 answers
152 answers
139 answers
132 answers
128 answers
98 answers
78 answers
69 answers
58 answers
48 answers
46 answers
44 answers
39 answers
38 answers
32 answers
28 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
24 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers

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.

Strategy after playing HORNY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HORNY:

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

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.9%
SLATE 6.43 bits
13.2%
TEASE 5.23 bits
6.4%
SAULT 4.78 bits
5.9%
ANILE 5.18 bits
5.6%
LEAST 5.49 bits
5.4%
SALET 5.16 bits
4.1%
TRADE 4.32 bits
3.3%
STAGE 4.81 bits
2.9%
SMILE 4.69 bits
2.4%
CAUSE 4.96 bits