HYPER
Yes, HYPER was the Wordle answer on October 11, 2021 (Wordle #114).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪ.pə//ˈhaɪ.pəɹ//ˈhæpɑ/
- Noun
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Clipping of hyperextension.
- Noun
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Clipping of hypersexuality.
- Verb
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To subject (a film or plate) to photographic hypersensitization, chiefly as a technique in astrophotography.
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To expose (an animal) to a disease-causing organism, to promote hyperimmunity.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Shortenings, all ultimately from the prefix hyper-.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it HYPUR.
In a sentence
Tom is a little hyper.
He's hyper-busy with work, family and everything else.
Use HYPER in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 92.7% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
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: October 11, 2021 (#114).
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See what the public sample says →HYPER in Connections
3 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #703
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HYPER appeared in GREEK PREFIXES (green group).
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· Puzzle #466
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HYPER appeared in PREFIX MEANING “VERY” (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #306
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HYPER appeared in AUGMENTATIVE PREFIXES (green group).
How HYPER performs as a guess
HYPER is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 83.4% of games, misses completely in 16.6%, and leaves about 173 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,227 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe HYPER 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 HYPER 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 HYPER in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
HYPER can come back 92 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 HYPER; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing HYPER
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to HYPER.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing HYPER:
Research on HYPER
Game-tree analysis and word research for HYPER, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with HYPER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,572 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 HYPER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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
- HYPER sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 5 times 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 internal bodily sensation (3.6 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).