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HORSE

Yes, HORSE was the Wordle answer on March 7, 2023 (Wordle #626).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /hɔːs//hoːs//hoɹs/

Noun

A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.

“A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse.”

Noun

Equipment with legs.

“She's scored very highly with the parallel bars; let's see how she does with the horse.”

Verb

Synonym of horse around.

Verb

To play mischievous pranks on.

Alternative forms: harse, hawss, hoss

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: March 7, 2023 (#626).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How HORSE performs as a guess

HORSE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 88.0% of games, misses completely in 12.0%, and leaves about 101 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,214 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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___E H in the 1st position and E in the 5th position H__S_ H in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

PLAIT ARIEL LEANT AGILE SLANT TRAIN
Words starting with H Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.42 Entropy (bits)
101 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 97% of evaluated openers
0.53 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HORSE 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#2,214 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HORSE ranks #2,214 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
91
3 guesses
956
4 guesses
1,077
5 guesses
203
6 guesses
26
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
2 vowels
Common:
EORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
39%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G N A S H
H O R S E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches HORSE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

132 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

284
177
172
129
125
122
93
91
81
68
57
50
49
39
31
29
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26
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HORSE:

12% chance
Suggested:
PLAIT
8% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
7% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.0% →
PLAIT 5.62 bits
7.5% →
ARIEL 4.16 bits
7.3% →
LEANT 5.34 bits
5.5% →
AGILE 4.61 bits
5.3% →
SLANT 5.23 bits
5.2% →
TRAIN 5.13 bits
3.9% →
TALON 5.05 bits
3.9% →
MOLDY 4.17 bits
3.4% →
ADORN 3.95 bits
2.9% →
PINCH 4.64 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4O1R1S1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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