5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

HOTTY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of hottie.

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.

How HOTTY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HOTTY as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 67.4% of games, misses completely in 32.6%, and leaves about 336 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,968 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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___Y H in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position H__T_ H in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE ARISE SANER LAIDE CARLE ARIEL
Words starting with H Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.92 Entropy (bits)
336 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 19% of evaluated openers
2.02 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HOTTY 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#11,968 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HOTTY ranks #11,968 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
748
4 guesses
1,212
5 guesses
326
6 guesses
27
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
OT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
33%
All gray
33%

Feedback distribution

75 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

768
243
237
195
136
125
58
52
40
35
33
32
25
24
23
18
18
16
16
16
16
15
14
14
14
12
10
9
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HOTTY:

33% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
10% chance
Suggested:
ARISE
10% chance
Suggested:
SANER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.6% →
RAILE 6.21 bits
10.3% →
ARISE 5.65 bits
10.1% →
SANER 5.19 bits
8.3% →
LAIDE 4.71 bits
5.8% →
CARLE 5.41 bits
5.3% →
CARLE 4.78 bits
2.5% →
ARIEL 4.12 bits
2.2% →
DROLE 3.76 bits
1.7% →
CRISE 4.58 bits
1.5% →
RAINE 3.75 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4O1T1T1Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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