5-Letter Word

WHEFT

A 5 letter word: wheft

W1
H2
E3
F4
T5
Letter positions
Word
wheft
Position 1
w
Position 2
h
Position 3
e
Position 4
f
Position 5
t
Structure
Vowel count
1
Consonant count
4
Unique letters
5
Repeated letters
No
Vowel positions
3
Game use
Wordle friendly
No
Scrabble score
14

Pattern Frequency

FilterWords% of 12,478
Words with 1 vowel (same as this word)3,73629.9%
Vowels at position 31,37511.0%
Words with no repeated letters8,01364.2%

Letter-Position Frequency

LetterPositionWords% of dataset
W14023.2%
H25254.2%
E38476.8%
F42251.8%
T57105.7%

Wordle Utility — Tier 3 — Weak opener

No repeated letters
Yes
Vowel count ≥ 2
No 1 vowel
No low-frequency tiles (Q, X, Z, J)
Yes

Tier 3 — Weak opener pool: 2,502 of 12,478 words (20.1%)

Scrabble Value

LetterPositionTile valueShare of score
W1429%
H2429%
E317%
F4429%
T517%
Total14Higher than 94% of 5-letter words (dataset median: 9)

Frequently Asked Questions

Is WHEFT a good Wordle opening word?
WHEFT has no repeated letters but only 1 vowel, below the ≥2-vowel threshold for opener classification. It falls in the Tier 3 pool of 2,502 words (20.1% of dataset). Better deployed as a second or third guess once vowel positions are partly confirmed.
What does WHEFT mean?
WHEFT: A 5 letter word: wheft.
What is the Scrabble score for WHEFT?
14 points. Tile breakdown: W(4) + H(4) + E(1) + F(4) + T(1). The highest-value tile is W (4 points), contributing 29% of the total. This score is higher than 94% of the 12,478-word dataset (dataset median: 9 points).
What percentage of 5-letter words have 1 vowel?
3,736 of the 12,478 words in this dataset have exactly 1 vowel (29.9%). Full vowel-count distribution: 0 vowels: 51 (0.4%), 1 vowel: 3,736 (29.9%), 2 vowels: 7,415 (59.4%), 3 vowels: 1,249 (10.0%), 4 vowels: 27 (0.2%).

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