5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

HULLO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /hʌˈləʊ//həˈləʊ/

Interjection

Alternative form of hello (Greeting.)

Noun

Alternative form of hello.

Verb

Alternative form of hello.

Interjection

Alternative form of hello (expressing puzzlement or discovery)

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 HULLO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HULLO 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 69.9% of games, misses completely in 30.1%, and leaves about 314 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,401 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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___O H in the 1st position and O in the 5th position H__L_ H in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _U__O U in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

TIARE TRONE PLANE TRICE STANE GRISE
Words starting with H Words ending with O

First-turn measures

3.93 Entropy (bits)
314 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.7% 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 HULLO 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#12,401 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HULLO ranks #12,401 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
739
4 guesses
1,223
5 guesses
319
6 guesses
36
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
2 vowels
Common:
LOU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
22%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

67 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

710
337
216
164
128
102
80
58
52
45
39
38
37
31
21
18
18
17
15
14
13
13
12
11
11
10
10
10
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HULLO:

30% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
14% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
9% chance
Suggested:
PLANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.1% →
TIARE 6.18 bits
14.3% →
TRONE 5.33 bits
9.2% →
PLANE 5.11 bits
7.0% →
TRICE 5.73 bits
5.4% →
STANE 5.40 bits
4.3% →
GRISE 4.61 bits
3.4% →
BLAER 4.16 bits
2.5% →
MAISE 4.85 bits
2.2% →
CORSE 4.50 bits
1.9% →
STURE 4.22 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4U1L1L1O1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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