HURRY
Yes, HURRY was the Wordle answer on March 28, 2023 (Wordle #647).
As an opener, it rules out about 85.8% of possible answers.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈhʌ.ɹi//ˈhɝ.i//ˈhʊ.ɹi/
- Noun
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A rushed action.
“Why are you in such a big hurry?”
- Noun
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An urgency.
“There is no hurry on that paperwork.”
- Verb
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To do things quickly.
“He's hurrying because he's late.”
- Verb
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Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.
“If you don't hurry (up) you won't finish on time.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: March 28, 2023 (#647).
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HURRY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 68.9% of games, misses completely in 31.1%, and leaves about 338 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,348 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe HURRY used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How HURRY 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches HURRY in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
HURRY can come back 74 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for HURRY; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing HURRY
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to HURRY.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing HURRY:
Research on HURRY
Game-tree analysis and word research for HURRY, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with HURRY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.85 guesses and ranks #12,601 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.
In hard mode it averages 4.02 guesses at best and is rank #6,417 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.82, at or below the proven-optimal 3.85, because the two figures score different answer lists.
These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it HUREE.
Related meanings
In WordNet's sense inventory, HURRY is a kind of urgency or speed.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- HURRY sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 14 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Learner level
- Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 47 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
In a sentence
I was in a hurry.
Are you in a hurry?
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).