5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

HYLIC

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪlɪk//ˈhʌɪlɪk/

Adjective

Synonym of physical, material, or base.

Noun

A base man, a person of merely physical concerns without mindfulness of either intellectual or spiritual matters.

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 HYLIC performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HYLIC 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 74.6% of games, misses completely in 25.4%, and leaves about 242 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,188 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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__I_ H in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _Y__C Y in the 2nd position and C in the 5th position

Try next

ORATE ROATE TRINE SARED TORSE TRADE
Words starting with H Words ending with C

First-turn measures

4.21 Entropy (bits)
242 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 33% of evaluated openers
1.74 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How HYLIC 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#8,188 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, HYLIC ranks #8,188 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
837
4 guesses
1,207
5 guesses
234
6 guesses
26
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
1 vowels
Common:
IL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
15%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

77 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

599
252
212
185
147
107
81
75
73
58
48
45
40
39
38
30
28
26
26
25
22
17
17
10
10
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9
8
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HYLIC:

25% chance
Suggested:
ORATE
11% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
9% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.4% →
ORATE 6.08 bits
10.7% →
ROATE 5.30 bits
9.0% →
TRINE 5.45 bits
7.8% →
SARED 5.07 bits
6.2% →
ORATE 5.69 bits
4.5% →
TORSE 5.70 bits
3.4% →
TRADE 5.08 bits
3.2% →
STILE 4.32 bits
3.1% →
COATE 4.72 bits
2.5% →
CLEAN 4.70 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4Y4L1I1C3
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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