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

ECASH

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of e-cash.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use ECASH in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No 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.

How ECASH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ECASH 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 87.0% of games, misses completely in 13.0%, and leaves about 149 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,515 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe ECASH 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.

4.95 Entropy (bits)
149 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ECASH 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#4,515 Rank among openers
Opening with ECASH left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,515 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
895
4 guesses
1,176
5 guesses
199
6 guesses
16

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
27%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

ECASH can come back 105 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

357 answers
310 answers
222 answers
148 answers
115 answers
98 answers
76 answers
68 answers
64 answers
57 answers
48 answers
44 answers
42 answers
39 answers
36 answers
35 answers
35 answers
34 answers
31 answers
28 answers
26 answers
26 answers
24 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1C3A1S1H4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing ECASH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ECASH:

15% chance
Suggested:
DOREE
13% chance
Suggested:
DROIT
9% chance
Suggested:
TALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.0% →
DOREE 5.26 bits
13.0% →
DROIT 5.63 bits
9.3% →
TALON 5.31 bits
6.2% →
ALTER 4.69 bits
4.8% →
SPILT 4.92 bits
4.1% →
STEER 4.68 bits
3.2% →
CLUNK 4.91 bits
2.9% →
DRAIN 4.36 bits
2.7% →
CRIED 4.51 bits
2.4% →
GLARE 3.66 bits

Research on ECASH

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

Optimal play

Opening with ECASH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,948 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 ECASH can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).