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HYPHA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 82.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪfə/

Noun

Any of the long, threadlike filaments that form the mycelium of a fungus.

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 HYPHA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HYPHA 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 67.3% of games, misses completely in 32.7%, and leaves about 420 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,195 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.92 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

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Useful pattern pages

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

H___A H in the 1st position and A in the 5th position H__H_ H in the 1st position and H in the 4th position _Y__A Y in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe HYPHA 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.

3.32 Entropy (bits)
420 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 4% of evaluated openers
2.62 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HYPHA 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.

3.92 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#14,195 Rank among openers
Opening with HYPHA solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.92 average. It ranks #14,195 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
33
3 guesses
586
4 guesses
1,308
5 guesses
397
6 guesses
30
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:
A

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
67%
Green tile
10%
All gray
33%

Feedback distribution

HYPHA can come back 52 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

777 answers
530 answers
192 answers
162 answers
139 answers
113 answers
74 answers
65 answers
53 answers
30 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4Y4P3H4A1
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Try next

RIONE ALTER DROLE CORSE URITE TALER

Strategy after playing HYPHA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HYPHA:

33% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
22% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
8% chance
Suggested:
DROLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.7% →
RIONE 6.01 bits
22.3% →
ALTER 5.35 bits
8.1% →
DROLE 4.89 bits
6.8% →
CORSE 5.49 bits
5.9% →
URITE 5.37 bits
4.8% →
TALER 4.39 bits
3.1% →
CARSE 4.72 bits
2.7% →
LEAST 4.95 bits
2.2% →
MOIRE 4.48 bits
1.3% →
POIRE 3.74 bits

Research on HYPHA

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

Optimal play

Opening with HYPHA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.92 guesses and ranks #14,125 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 HYPHA can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.92, at or below the proven-optimal 3.92, 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 HYFUH. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, HYPHA is a kind of strand.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
HYPHA sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).