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

AMENE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /əˈmiːn/

Adjective

Pleasant; agreeable.

Alternative forms: amoene, amœne

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

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English amene, from Middle French amene, from Latin amoenus (“pleasant”).

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use AMENE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% of possible answers.

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 AMENE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AMENE 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 81.4% of games, misses completely in 18.6%, and leaves about 172 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,111 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe AMENE 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.

4.68 Entropy (bits)
172 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AMENE 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#9,111 Rank among openers
Opening with AMENE left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.74 average. It ranks #9,111 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
777
4 guesses
1,246
5 guesses
244
6 guesses
23

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AEN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
36%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

AMENE can come back 89 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

444 answers
295 answers
191 answers
133 answers
95 answers
95 answers
94 answers
93 answers
87 answers
68 answers
62 answers
54 answers
54 answers
46 answers
45 answers
43 answers
33 answers
30 answers
27 answers
27 answers
25 answers
24 answers
20 answers
19 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1M3E1N1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing AMENE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AMENE:

19% chance
Suggested:
COURT
12% chance
Suggested:
SLART
8% chance
Suggested:
OLDER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.6% →
COURT 5.82 bits
12.4% →
SLART 5.28 bits
8.0% →
OLDER 4.75 bits
5.6% →
TORSE 4.57 bits
4.0% →
SONIC 4.65 bits
4.0% →
LEAPT 4.43 bits
3.9% →
SLART 4.49 bits
3.9% →
SOULY 4.68 bits
3.6% →
SOILY 4.37 bits
2.9% →
SATIN 4.27 bits

Research on AMENE

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

Optimal play

Opening with AMENE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,501 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 AMENE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.74, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).