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

EALED

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

No dictionary definition for EALED is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 93.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 EALED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts EALED 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 81.1% of games, misses completely in 18.9%, and leaves about 161 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,606 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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 EALED 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.

4.82 Entropy (bits)
161 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 73% of evaluated openers
1.12 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How EALED 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#7,606 Rank among openers
Opening with EALED left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,606 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
807
4 guesses
1,218
5 guesses
239
6 guesses
18
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AEL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
34%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

EALED can come back 101 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

448 answers
220 answers
187 answers
137 answers
135 answers
120 answers
107 answers
97 answers
58 answers
57 answers
56 answers
44 answers
43 answers
40 answers
35 answers
33 answers
33 answers
28 answers
28 answers
24 answers
24 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1A1L1E1D2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing EALED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EALED:

19% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
9% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
8% chance
Suggested:
SCANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.9%
HOIST 5.98 bits
9.3%
TORSE 5.42 bits
7.9%
SCANT 5.24 bits
5.8%
CLOUT 4.67 bits
5.7%
TONEY 4.07 bits
5.1%
SHART 4.97 bits
4.5%
COAST 4.18 bits
4.1%
ROAST 3.93 bits
2.4%
PLATE 3.94 bits
2.4%
STOLE 4.29 bits

Research on EALED

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

Optimal play

Opening with EALED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,868 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 EALED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71; proven optimal play reaches 3.70. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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

One syllable Say it EELD. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.