Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

HYPED

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /haɪpt/

Verb

simple past and past participle of hype

Adjective

Having been subject to propaganda and promotion; promoted beyond what is reasonable or appropriate.

Adjective

Excited.

“He's hyped about getting to kiss her in the final scene of the play.”

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it HYPT.

Rhymes with WIPED TYPED PIPED

Related meanings

Synonyms plug

Use HYPED in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 89.9% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How HYPED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HYPED 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 77.7% of games, misses completely in 22.3%, and leaves about 240 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,778 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe HYPED 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.

4.21 Entropy (bits)
240 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HYPED 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% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#7,778 Rank among openers
Opening with HYPED solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.72 average. It ranks #7,778 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
807
4 guesses
1,250
5 guesses
230
6 guesses
11

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
E

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

HYPED can come back 83 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

531 answers
392 answers
190 answers
183 answers
159 answers
97 answers
78 answers
77 answers
72 answers
60 answers
52 answers
49 answers
41 answers
32 answers
29 answers
22 answers
20 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4Y4P3E1D2
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Strategy after playing HYPED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HYPED:

22% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
16% chance
Suggested:
SLART
8% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.3% →
TRAIL 6.07 bits
16.4% →
SLART 5.71 bits
8.0% →
SOLAR 4.65 bits
7.7% →
SOLAR 4.94 bits
6.7% →
COAST 5.35 bits
4.1% →
STAIR 5.21 bits
3.3% →
GEARE 4.45 bits
3.2% →
STAIR 4.77 bits
3.0% →
SLATE 4.78 bits
2.5% →
SONAR 4.60 bits

Research on HYPED

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

Optimal play

Opening with HYPED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,687 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with HYPED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
HYPED sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

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).