HORNY
HORNY is on the solver's possible-answer list and has no appearance in our globally completed Wordle history.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈhɔːni//ˈhoɹni/
- Adjective
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Hard or bony, like an animal's horn.
- Adjective
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Having the hard consistency and pale colour of an animal's horn.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From the horn (“an erect penis”) + -y (“having the quality of”). The adjective originally meant "erect", but was later was broadened to refer not only to sexual arousal but also to sexual desire in general.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
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As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% of possible answers.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
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Possible answer
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Past Wordle answer
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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.
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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
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:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for HORNY; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Strategy after playing HORNY
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to HORNY.
Quick reference
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