5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

HOVED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

Misconstruction of hove, as past tense of heave.

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 HOVED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HOVED 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 78.2% of games, misses completely in 21.8%, and leaves about 228 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,265 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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__E_ H in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position HO_ED H in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and D in the 5th position

Try next

SAINT SLART ARSON STAIR CHART SALTY
Words starting with H Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.33 Entropy (bits)
228 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 40% of evaluated openers
1.62 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HOVED 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#8,265 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HOVED ranks #8,265 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
786
4 guesses
1,271
5 guesses
234
6 guesses
8
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:
EO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
29%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

85 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

513
384
194
166
135
115
77
69
65
62
32
32
31
31
30
26
22
22
21
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HOVED:

22% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
16% chance
Suggested:
SLART
8% chance
Suggested:
ARSON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.8% →
SAINT 6.12 bits
16.3% →
SLART 5.86 bits
8.2% →
ARSON 5.19 bits
7.0% →
STAIR 4.59 bits
5.7% →
CHART 5.09 bits
4.9% →
SALTY 4.53 bits
3.3% →
GEARE 4.57 bits
2.9% →
TEASE 4.74 bits
2.8% →
DRAIN 4.67 bits
2.6% →
SNARE 4.22 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4O1V4E1D2
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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