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

WAHEY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /wəˈheɪ/

Interjection

Expressing exhilaration or delight.

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 WAHEY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WAHEY 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 85.3% of games, misses completely in 14.7%, and leaves about 176 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,721 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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.

W___Y W in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position W__E_ W in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

CLOUT NOIRE TRAIL SLART SILER SOILY
Words starting with W Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

All four describe WAHEY 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.

4.48 Entropy (bits)
176 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 51% of evaluated openers
1.47 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How WAHEY 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#11,721 Rank among openers
Opening with WAHEY left 1 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 3.80 average. It ranks #11,721 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
727
4 guesses
1,228
5 guesses
311
6 guesses
31
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
2 vowels
Common:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
39%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

WAHEY can come back 86 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

348 answers
313 answers
247 answers
188 answers
182 answers
146 answers
124 answers
99 answers
63 answers
53 answers
45 answers
42 answers
42 answers
41 answers
30 answers
26 answers
26 answers
24 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
15 answers
15 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WAHEY:

15% chance
Suggested:
CLOUT
13% chance
Suggested:
NOIRE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.7% →
CLOUT 5.72 bits
13.3% →
NOIRE 5.07 bits
10.5% →
TRAIL 5.30 bits
8.0% →
SLART 5.11 bits
7.7% →
SILER 4.33 bits
6.2% →
SOILY 4.16 bits
5.3% →
TOUCH 5.24 bits
4.2% →
SONAR 4.36 bits
2.7% →
SLANT 3.52 bits
2.2% →
SENTE 4.57 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4A1H4E1Y4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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