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

EASTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of east

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 EASTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts EASTS 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 85.0% of games, misses completely in 15.0%, and leaves about 167 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,201 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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___S E in the 1st position and S in the 5th position E__T_ E in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe EASTS 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.

4.61 Entropy (bits)
167 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 59% of evaluated openers
1.34 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How EASTS 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,201 Rank among openers
Opening with EASTS left 2 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 3.77 average. It ranks #10,201 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
731
4 guesses
1,276
5 guesses
254
6 guesses
27
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
2 vowels
Common:
AEST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
24%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

EASTS can come back 85 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

364 answers
357 answers
184 answers
143 answers
111 answers
109 answers
109 answers
99 answers
93 answers
65 answers
64 answers
59 answers
58 answers
42 answers
42 answers
38 answers
33 answers
32 answers
32 answers
31 answers
23 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1A1S1T1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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

Try next

DOREE COULD ACORN BLARE COURT RANDY

Strategy after playing EASTS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EASTS:

15% chance
Suggested:
DOREE
15% chance
Suggested:
COULD
8% chance
Suggested:
ACORN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.3% →
DOREE 5.27 bits
15.0% →
COULD 5.57 bits
7.8% →
ACORN 4.95 bits
6.0% →
BLARE 4.75 bits
4.7% →
COURT 5.06 bits
4.6% →
RANDY 4.05 bits
4.6% →
SPREE 4.76 bits
4.2% →
SLINK 4.67 bits
3.9% →
TIMER 4.70 bits
2.7% →
LAGER 3.96 bits

Research on EASTS

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

Optimal play

Opening with EASTS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.79 guesses and ranks #10,420 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 EASTS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.79, 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

One syllable Say it EESTS. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, EASTS is a kind of point or direction.

Synonyms e eastward eastern eastbound

Opposites west

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
EASTS 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 (2.2 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 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).