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

EBOOK

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.9% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of e-book.

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 EBOOK performs as a guess

Wordle accepts EBOOK 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 73.9% of games, misses completely in 26.1%, and leaves about 383 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,015 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe EBOOK 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.

3.57 Entropy (bits)
383 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 8% of evaluated openers
2.38 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How EBOOK 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#14,015 Rank among openers
Opening with EBOOK left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.90 average. It ranks #14,015 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
612
4 guesses
1,268
5 guesses
407
6 guesses
26
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
3 vowels
Common:
EO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
22%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

EBOOK can come back 60 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

662 answers
620 answers
183 answers
102 answers
97 answers
87 answers
80 answers
71 answers
58 answers
56 answers
46 answers
35 answers
32 answers
24 answers
23 answers
16 answers
16 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1B3O1O1K5
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing EBOOK

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EBOOK:

28% chance
Suggested:
REATE
26% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
8% chance
Suggested:
LAIRY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.9%
REATE 5.49 bits
26.1%
SAINT 6.03 bits
7.7%
LAIRY 4.70 bits
4.3%
LOVER 4.23 bits
4.1%
SLANT 4.91 bits
3.7%
LEARE 4.89 bits
3.4%
SAULT 4.94 bits
3.0%
SLANT 4.80 bits
2.4%
MANOR 4.32 bits
2.4%
SLART 4.78 bits

Research on EBOOK

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

Optimal play

Opening with EBOOK, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.90 guesses and ranks #13,864 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.05 guesses at best and is rank #6,753 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.90, at or below the proven-optimal 3.90, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it EHBOHK. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
EBOOK sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 5 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.5 of 5).

In a sentence

I received an ebook Reader for Christmas.
© tatoeba.org contributor Scott (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).