490 words start with H, a moderate count. This word finder has the full set, filterable by position, pattern, or exclusion.
490 words, and H splits its two biggest openings dead even. HA- and HO- both land on exactly the same count, an exact tie you won't find on most other letters here.
69 of the 2,315 real Wordle answers start with H, just 3.0%. One of the lower shares on this list. A wordle solver still catches H early, but it's a weaker opener than its word count suggests.
HABIT, HARRY, HAVEN, HEAVY, HOLLY. Everyday words, the kind that turn up first in a search for common H openers.
A scrabble word finder puts HUZZY at 29 points, an old spelling of hussy and H's clear top scorer. HUZZA follows at 26. Neither is everyday vocabulary, but both are valid, and a words with friends cheat worth keeping in mind.
H is a fair early guess, 490 words behind it, though its low Wordle hit rate means it pays off less often than the count implies.
HA- and HO- are exactly tied for H's biggest opening, so don't lean on one over the other without more information.
On the board, H is worth 4 points, solid value. A scrabble word finder is useful here since H often opens words most players wouldn't think to try, like HUZZY or HAJJI.
HUZZY, 29 points, an old-fashioned spelling of hussy. Two Z's do almost all the work. Feed a rack with a couple of Z's into any unscrambler and this is the shape it should surface.
490 total. 69 real Wordle answers, 3.0% of them, one of the lower rates here. H splits evenly between HA- and HO-, then drops off toward HE- and HU-.
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Want a different pattern? Try words ending in E, or ones containing a letter you already know, same finder, different filter. HA, HO, and HE each get their own list too.
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Data computed from a 12,974-word open-source dictionary and the 2,315-word Wordle answer list. Last updated August 26, 2026.