5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

EATER

EATER is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 95.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈiː.tɚ//ˈiː.ɾɚ//ˈiː.tə/

Noun

A person or animal who eats.

“a very fussy eater”

Noun

A fruit or other food that is suitable for eating, especially one that is intended to be eaten uncooked.

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

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 EATER performs as a guess

EATER is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 85.5% of games, misses completely in 14.5%, and leaves about 115 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,152 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

E___R E in the 1st position and R in the 5th position E__E_ E in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__R A in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY NOISE SLAIN CRONY HOIST SLADE
Words starting with E Words ending with R

First-turn measures

5.16 Entropy (bits)
115 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 90% of evaluated openers
0.79 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How EATER 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#5,152 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, EATER ranks #5,152 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
77
3 guesses
874
4 guesses
1,157
5 guesses
223
6 guesses
19
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AERT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
32%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
T A L E A
B E E C H
E A T E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches EATER in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

108 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

341
158
152
135
135
98
94
90
87
74
69
59
57
55
46
43
36
35
34
29
29
26
24
21
20
19
18
17
16
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EATER:

14% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
7% chance
Suggested:
NOISE
6% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.5% →
SOILY 5.72 bits
6.7% →
NOISE 5.11 bits
6.4% →
SLAIN 5.10 bits
5.7% →
CRONY 4.71 bits
5.7% →
HOIST 5.19 bits
4.2% →
SLADE 4.58 bits
4.0% →
SONLY 4.63 bits
3.8% →
POISE 4.57 bits
3.7% →
BRAND 4.13 bits
3.1% →
SOILY 3.59 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1A1T1E1R1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 5 points

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