5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

EBONS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of ebon

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 EBONS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts EBONS 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 85.9% of games, misses completely in 14.1%, and leaves about 169 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,016 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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___S E in the 1st position and S in the 5th position E__N_ E in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _B__S B in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

REATE TRAIL SHALT MOLAR SLART AINEE
Words starting with E Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.65 Entropy (bits)
169 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 62% of evaluated openers
1.30 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How EBONS 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#6,016 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, EBONS ranks #6,016 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
863
4 guesses
1,194
5 guesses
220
6 guesses
14
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
22%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

389
333
182
157
157
102
82
77
76
70
62
50
43
42
40
29
27
26
24
24
23
20
19
19
17
16
15
14
14
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EBONS:

16% chance
Suggested:
REATE
14% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
8% chance
Suggested:
SHALT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.5% →
REATE 5.53 bits
14.1% →
TRAIL 5.93 bits
7.7% →
SHALT 5.30 bits
6.7% →
MOLAR 5.10 bits
6.7% →
SLART 5.01 bits
4.3% →
AINEE 4.68 bits
3.5% →
MANIC 4.75 bits
3.3% →
LEARE 4.87 bits
3.2% →
VOTER 4.48 bits
3.0% →
CLARY 4.35 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1B3O1N1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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