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

HYPHY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪfiː/

Adjective

Rambunctious, loud, crazy, dangerous, irrational, and outrageous in behavior.

“She was so hyphy outside the club Saturday night, she nearly punched a cop!”

Adjective

Of or relating to the hyphy music subgenre or culture.

Noun

A subgenre of hip-hop music and dancing associated with the San Francisco Bay Area.

Alternative forms: hyphe, hyphee, hyphie

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

Etymology

Probably an alteration of hype or hyper. American rapper Keak da Sneak is sometimes credited as coining the word in the 1990s, but no evidence exists to support this and the term is first attested in 2002.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use HYPHY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 64.1% of possible answers.

Open Solver with HYPHY Open Word Finder

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 HYPHY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts HYPHY 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 42.9% of games, misses completely in 57.1%, and leaves about 856 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,814 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.07 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

H___Y H in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position H__H_ H in the 1st position and H in the 4th position _Y__Y Y in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe HYPHY 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.

2.33 Entropy (bits)
856 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
64.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How HYPHY 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.

4.07 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#14,814 Rank among openers
Opening with HYPHY left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 4.07 average. It ranks #14,814 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
24
3 guesses
447
4 guesses
1,269
5 guesses
558
6 guesses
51

Composition

3/5 unique
0 vowels

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
43%
Green tile
21%
All gray
57%

Feedback distribution

HYPHY can come back 38 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1361 answers
280 answers
238 answers
214 answers
41 answers
40 answers
35 answers
30 answers
24 answers
20 answers
19 answers
13 answers
12 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer
1 answer

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

H4Y4P3H4Y4
Total: 19 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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

Try next

ARIEL SORAL CRATE STRAE PAISE RAILE

Strategy after playing HYPHY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing HYPHY:

57% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
12% chance
Suggested:
SORAL
10% chance
Suggested:
CRATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

57.1% →
ARIEL 6.05 bits
11.7% →
SORAL 4.67 bits
10.0% →
CRATE 5.61 bits
9.0% →
STRAE 5.59 bits
1.7% →
PAISE 3.94 bits
1.7% →
RAILE 4.73 bits
1.5% →
ROATE 4.65 bits
1.3% →
COURE 4.35 bits
1.0% →
LAYER 4.30 bits
0.8% →
TRINE 3.40 bits

Research on HYPHY

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

Optimal play

Opening with HYPHY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 4.07 guesses and ranks #14,831 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 HYPHY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 4.07, at or below the proven-optimal 4.07, 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
HYPHY 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).