5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

EDGED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 79.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɛd͡ʒd/

Verb

simple past and past participle of edge

“Already a mentally fragile boy, he now edged towards insanity.”

Adjective

That has a sharp planar surface.

“The monks were forbidden to carry edged weapons such as swords and axes.”

Adjective

Having an edging of a certain material, color, and so on.

“a coat edged with fur”

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 EDGED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts EDGED 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 60.2% of games, misses completely in 39.8%, and leaves about 490 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,350 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.94 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___D E in the 1st position and D in the 5th position E__E_ E in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _D__D D in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

COAST SLART SOLAR SLANT DROIT SORAL
Words starting with E Words ending with D

First-turn measures

3.30 Entropy (bits)
490 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
79.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 4% of evaluated openers
2.65 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How EDGED 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.

3.94 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#14,350 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, EDGED ranks #14,350 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
554
4 guesses
1,315
5 guesses
429
6 guesses
21
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
2 vowels
Common:
E

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
60%
Green tile
23%
All gray
40%

Feedback distribution

58 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

939
449
171
117
86
66
64
59
56
42
36
30
26
19
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EDGED:

40% chance
Suggested:
COAST
19% chance
Suggested:
SLART
7% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

39.8% →
COAST 5.90 bits
19.0% →
SLART 5.81 bits
7.3% →
SOLAR 4.59 bits
5.0% →
SLANT 5.05 bits
3.6% →
DROIT 4.86 bits
2.8% →
SORAL 4.56 bits
2.7% →
IRATE 4.59 bits
2.5% →
SLEER 4.13 bits
2.4% →
LARGE 4.41 bits
1.8% →
SCRAE 3.91 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1D2G2E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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