5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

EBENE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A psychoactive material, variously described as obtained from plants of either the genus Virola or of Anadenanthera peregrina, used ritually as snuff by the Yanomamo people of South America.

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 EBENE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts EBENE 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 64.5% of games, misses completely in 35.5%, and leaves about 387 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,644 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.88 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___E E in the 1st position and E in the 5th position E__N_ E in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _B__E B in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SLART SOLAR ROAST CANON BLOAT ALIEN
Words starting with E Words ending with E

First-turn measures

3.60 Entropy (bits)
387 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 9% of evaluated openers
2.35 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How EBENE 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.

3.88 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#13,644 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, EBENE ranks #13,644 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
33
3 guesses
621
4 guesses
1,322
5 guesses
350
6 guesses
23
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

3/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
34%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

56 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

836
265
246
177
124
110
85
81
40
38
37
34
30
25
23
20
15
14
12
12
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10
9
9
8
7
7
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6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EBENE:

35% chance
Suggested:
SLART
11% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
10% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.5% →
SLART 5.91 bits
11.2% →
SOLAR 4.99 bits
10.4% →
ROAST 5.15 bits
7.5% →
CANON 4.98 bits
5.3% →
ROAST 4.65 bits
4.7% →
BLOAT 5.11 bits
3.6% →
ALIEN 4.28 bits
3.4% →
SLART 5.10 bits
1.7% →
DEBAR 4.37 bits
1.6% →
SAICE 4.20 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1B3E1N1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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