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

EEVEN

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Evening.

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

Use EEVEN in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 81.0% 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 EEVEN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts EEVEN 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 61.7% of games, misses completely in 38.3%, and leaves about 453 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,343 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.93 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 EEVEN 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.

3.41 Entropy (bits)
453 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How EEVEN 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.

3.93 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#14,343 Rank among openers
Opening with EEVEN left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.93 average. It ranks #14,343 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
571
4 guesses
1,281
5 guesses
427
6 guesses
33

Composition

3/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
62%
Green tile
29%
All gray
38%

Feedback distribution

EEVEN can come back 63 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

913 answers
340 answers
262 answers
157 answers
132 answers
78 answers
72 answers
37 answers
34 answers
34 answers
31 answers
27 answers
25 answers
22 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1E1V4E1N1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing EEVEN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EEVEN:

38% chance
Suggested:
SLART
14% chance
Suggested:
SLART
11% chance
Suggested:
GIANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

38.3% →
SLART 5.89 bits
14.3% →
SLART 5.59 bits
11.0% →
GIANT 5.12 bits
6.6% →
SOLAR 4.54 bits
5.5% →
SLART 4.97 bits
3.3% →
SAINE 4.41 bits
3.0% →
SORAL 4.55 bits
1.6% →
STEER 3.56 bits
1.4% →
VIOLA 4.73 bits
1.4% →
SAULT 4.19 bits

Research on EEVEN

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

Optimal play

Opening with EEVEN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.95 guesses and ranks #14,423 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 EEVEN can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.93, at or below the proven-optimal 3.95, 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).