5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

EGGER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɛɡə/

Noun

One who gathers eggs.

Noun

An eggar moth; any of various species of family Lasiocampidae, especially the oak eggar-moth, Lasiocampa quercus.

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 EGGER performs as a guess

Wordle accepts EGGER 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 68.5% of games, misses completely in 31.5%, and leaves about 358 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,095 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.91 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___R E in the 1st position and R in the 5th position E__E_ E in the 1st position and E in the 4th position

Try next

SAULT SLATE COAST CRATE SOILY SOULY
Words starting with E Words ending with R

First-turn measures

3.60 Entropy (bits)
358 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 9% of evaluated openers
2.34 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How EGGER 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.

3.91 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#14,095 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, EGGER ranks #14,095 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
34
3 guesses
601
4 guesses
1,289
5 guesses
400
6 guesses
27
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:
ER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
22%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

56 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

742
350
320
173
107
90
88
51
44
38
37
34
27
23
22
19
18
17
16
15
13
12
8
6
6
6
6
6
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EGGER:

31% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
15% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
14% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.5% →
SAULT 5.87 bits
14.8% →
SLATE 5.77 bits
13.6% →
COAST 5.50 bits
7.3% →
CRATE 4.80 bits
4.5% →
SOILY 3.54 bits
3.8% →
SOULY 4.83 bits
3.7% →
ALIEN 4.34 bits
2.2% →
MAILE 3.87 bits
1.9% →
DAINE 4.38 bits
1.6% →
GROIN 3.95 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1G2G2E1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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