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HUTCH

Yes, HUTCH was the Wordle answer on June 30, 2022 (Wordle #376).

As an opener, it rules out about 81.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /hʌt͡ʃ/

Noun

A box, chest, crate, case or cabinet.

Noun

A coop or cage for keeping small animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, etc).

Verb

To hoard or lay up, in a chest.

Verb

To wash (ore) in a box or jig.

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: June 30, 2022 (#376).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 30, 2022 (#376).

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

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How HUTCH performs as a guess

HUTCH 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 60.4% of games, misses completely in 39.6%, and leaves about 447 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,085 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

H___H H in the 1st position and H in the 5th position H__C_ H in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _U__H U in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in HUTCH.

First-turn measures

All four describe HUTCH 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.

3.63 Entropy (bits)
447 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
81.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 10% of evaluated openers
2.32 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HUTCH 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#12,085 Rank among openers
Opening with HUTCH left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.81 average. It ranks #12,085 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
745
4 guesses
1,213
5 guesses
326
6 guesses
29
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
TU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
60%
Green tile
23%
All gray
40%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S H U N T
A B I D E
H U T C H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches HUTCH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

HUTCH can come back 70 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

940 answers
311 answers
166 answers
125 answers
103 answers
68 answers
66 answers
63 answers
52 answers
42 answers
39 answers
32 answers
31 answers
30 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
25 answers
17 answers
15 answers
13 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4U1T1C3H4
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

RAILE SOARE CANER SLANE MARLE SNARE

Strategy after playing HUTCH

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to HUTCH.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HUTCH:

40% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
13% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
7% chance
Suggested:
CANER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

39.6% →
RAILE 6.22 bits
13.1% →
SOARE 5.78 bits
7.0% →
CANER 5.48 bits
5.3% →
SLANE 5.16 bits
4.3% →
MARLE 4.48 bits
2.9% →
SNARE 4.98 bits
2.8% →
EARLY 4.82 bits
2.7% →
SNORE 4.61 bits
2.2% →
RAISE 4.60 bits
1.8% →
SWIRE 4.65 bits

Research on HUTCH

Game-tree analysis and word research for HUTCH, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with HUTCH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #12,942 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.00 guesses at best and is rank #6,250 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.81, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, 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

One syllable Say it HUHCH.

Rhymes with TOUCH DUTCH KUTCH MUTCH

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, HUTCH is a kind of cage or shelter.

Synonyms hut SHACK

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
HUTCH sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.8 of 5).

In a sentence

The boy went into the rabbit hutch.
© tatoeba.org contributor carlosalberto (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).