5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

ECLAT

ECLAT is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 95.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of éclat.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 ECLAT performs as a guess

ECLAT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 89.8% of games, misses completely in 10.2%, and leaves about 110 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,852 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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___T E in the 1st position and T in the 5th position E__A_ E in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _C__T C in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

SIREE SOUND ROANY MAARE SOILY NORTH
Words starting with E Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.25 Entropy (bits)
110 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 94% of evaluated openers
0.70 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ECLAT 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#1,852 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ECLAT ranks #1,852 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
82
3 guesses
958
4 guesses
1,106
5 guesses
187
6 guesses
18
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:
AELT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
25%
All gray
10%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S P L A T
E C L A T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ECLAT in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

117 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

291
241
166
115
99
98
90
86
78
72
66
64
56
53
51
39
37
34
31
28
25
25
24
22
21
20
20
17
16
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ECLAT:

12% chance
Suggested:
SIREE
10% chance
Suggested:
SOUND
7% chance
Suggested:
ROANY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.3% →
SIREE 5.52 bits
10.2% →
SOUND 5.52 bits
7.0% →
ROANY 4.81 bits
4.9% →
MAARE 4.49 bits
4.2% →
SOILY 4.66 bits
4.2% →
NORTH 5.02 bits
3.8% →
SIREE 4.34 bits
3.6% →
SIREE 4.82 bits
3.3% →
COUCH 4.99 bits
3.1% →
ROUSE 4.74 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1C3L1A1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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