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

AMENS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.5% of possible answers.

Open Solver with AMENS Open Word Finder

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of amen

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of amen

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 AMENS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts AMENS 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 88.0% of games, misses completely in 12.0%, and leaves about 130 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,960 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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.
See strategy patterns

Useful pattern pages

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

A___S A in the 1st position and S in the 5th position A__N_ A in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _M__S M in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe AMENS 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.

4.95 Entropy (bits)
130 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 81% of evaluated openers
1.00 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How AMENS 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#3,960 Rank among openers
Opening with AMENS left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,960 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
70
3 guesses
897
4 guesses
1,178
5 guesses
191
6 guesses
15
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AENS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
23%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

AMENS can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

294 answers
285 answers
197 answers
149 answers
141 answers
90 answers
85 answers
83 answers
75 answers
73 answers
65 answers
57 answers
54 answers
50 answers
47 answers
42 answers
37 answers
37 answers
36 answers
28 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1M3E1N1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

TOILE COURT TRAIL CARLE HOIST SLART

Strategy after playing AMENS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing AMENS:

12% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
12% chance
Suggested:
COURT
8% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.4% →
TOILE 5.23 bits
12.0% →
COURT 5.71 bits
8.3% →
TRAIL 5.18 bits
6.3% →
CARLE 4.75 bits
5.9% →
HOIST 5.15 bits
3.8% →
SLART 4.61 bits
3.6% →
PORTE 4.94 bits
3.5% →
DINER 4.66 bits
3.2% →
TONIC 4.76 bits
3.1% →
HUMOR 4.68 bits

Research on AMENS

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

Optimal play

Opening with AMENS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #3,918 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 AMENS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it AYMUHNZ. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
AMENS 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (3.7 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).