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EASEL

Yes, EASEL was the Wordle answer on October 30, 2024 (Wordle #1229).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈiː.z(ə)l//ˈi.zəl/

Noun

An upright frame, typically on three legs, for displaying or supporting something, such as an artist's canvas.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: October 30, 2024 (#1229).

See the full page for that puzzle: October 30, 2024 (#1229).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How EASEL performs as a guess

EASEL is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 85.0% of games, misses completely in 15.0%, and leaves about 126 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,170 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

E___L E in the 1st position and L in the 5th position E__E_ E in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__L A in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe EASEL 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.

5.03 Entropy (bits)
126 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 85% of evaluated openers
0.92 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How EASEL 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
99.83% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#7,170 Rank among openers
Opening with EASEL left 4 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 3.71 average. It ranks #7,170 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
842
4 guesses
1,199
5 guesses
227
6 guesses
22
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:
AELS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
33%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
L A D E N
B E E C H
E A S E L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches EASEL in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

EASEL can come back 99 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

357 answers
184 answers
147 answers
147 answers
130 answers
130 answers
109 answers
106 answers
79 answers
78 answers
63 answers
57 answers
48 answers
44 answers
39 answers
35 answers
34 answers
34 answers
33 answers
28 answers
23 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1A1S1E1L1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Try next

COUNT TRIDE SNOUT TRAIN COULD RONTE

Strategy after playing EASEL

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EASEL:

15% chance
Suggested:
COUNT
8% chance
Suggested:
TRIDE
6% chance
Suggested:
SNOUT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.0% →
COUNT 5.81 bits
7.8% →
TRIDE 5.32 bits
6.2% →
SNOUT 5.22 bits
6.2% →
TRAIN 5.31 bits
5.5% →
COULD 4.77 bits
5.5% →
RONTE 4.09 bits
4.6% →
TRADE 4.92 bits
4.5% →
TONER 4.25 bits
3.3% →
PORTE 4.67 bits
3.3% →
SHART 4.46 bits

Research on EASEL

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

Optimal play

Opening with EASEL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #5,116 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 EASEL can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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 EEZUHL.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, EASEL is a kind of tripod.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
EASEL sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.6 of 5).

In a sentence

Tom noticed the easel in the corner of Mary's room.
© tatoeba.org contributor shekitten (CC BY 2.0 FR)
The same half-finished painting sat on the artist's easel for years.
© tatoeba.org contributor AlanF_US (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).