EAVES
EAVES is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /iːvz//ivz/
- Noun
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The underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building.
- Noun
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Something that extends over or projects beyond.
Alternative forms: eave
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From Middle English eves (“projecting lower edge of a roof”) [and other forms], from Old English efes, yfes, *ofes (“edge of a roof”), from Proto-West Germanic *ubisu (“hall”), from Proto-Germanic *ubiswō (compare Gothic 𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌶𐍅𐌰 (ubizwa), Old High German obasa (“hall; porch; roof”)), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *upér (“above; over”) (whence over).
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
One syllable Say it EEVZ.
Rhymes with NEVES
In a sentence
She hung the cage from the eaves.
Rain is dripping from the eaves.
Use EAVES in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
NoThe solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.
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1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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How EAVES performs as a guess
Wordle accepts EAVES 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 79.2% of games, misses completely in 20.8%, and leaves about 206 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,270 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe EAVES 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How EAVES 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Feedback distribution
EAVES can come back 77 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for EAVES; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing EAVES
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to EAVES.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing EAVES:
Research on EAVES
Game-tree analysis and word research for EAVES, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with EAVES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,706 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 EAVES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.82, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- EAVES 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 (3.1 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).