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HOUND

Yes, HOUND was the Wordle answer on April 18, 2023 (Wordle #668).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /haʊnd/

Noun

A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals.

Noun

Any canine animal.

Verb

To persistently harass doggedly.

“He hounded me for weeks, but I was simply unable to pay back his loan.”

Verb

To urge on against; to set (dogs) upon in hunting.

Alternative forms: hune

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: April 18, 2023 (#668).

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

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How HOUND performs as a guess

HOUND 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 72.3% of games, misses completely in 27.7%, and leaves about 244 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,697 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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___D H in the 1st position and D in the 5th position H__N_ H in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE TALER REAST LINER SILER RAILE
Words starting with H Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.46 Entropy (bits)
244 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 49% of evaluated openers
1.49 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HOUND 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#3,697 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HOUND ranks #3,697 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
911
4 guesses
1,199
5 guesses
173
6 guesses
13
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:
NOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
29%
All gray
28%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S C O L D
B L I M P
A W A S H
H O U N D

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches HOUND in 5 guesses. See the trap-family guide for similar endgames.

Feedback distribution

95 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

654
170
157
149
136
131
105
71
64
64
46
36
32
32
31
30
24
24
24
23
22
22
18
16
15
13
13
12
11
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HOUND:

28% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
7% chance
Suggested:
TALER
7% chance
Suggested:
REAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.7% →
TARSE 6.32 bits
7.2% →
TALER 5.14 bits
6.7% →
REAST 5.62 bits
6.3% →
LINER 5.24 bits
5.8% →
SILER 5.00 bits
5.6% →
TALER 4.64 bits
4.5% →
RAILE 5.47 bits
3.0% →
LEAST 4.85 bits
2.7% →
SALEP 4.82 bits
2.7% →
ARSON 4.48 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4O1U1N1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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