5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer A tier opener

ELAIN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 96.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

eleoptene

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 ELAIN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ELAIN 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 90.5% of games, misses completely in 9.5%, and leaves about 95 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,077 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___N E in the 1st position and N in the 5th position E__I_ E in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _L__N L in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SOREE SHORT SATYR SHIRT TARSE TRIDE
Words starting with E Words ending with N

First-turn measures

5.45 Entropy (bits)
95 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 98% of evaluated openers
0.50 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ELAIN 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
#2,077 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ELAIN ranks #2,077 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
84
3 guesses
946
4 guesses
1,121
5 guesses
180
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

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AEILN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
32%
All gray
10%

Feedback distribution

122 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

261
224
133
115
114
88
82
76
69
68
64
60
60
56
47
41
39
39
36
31
27
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23
21
21
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19
18
17

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ELAIN:

11% chance
Suggested:
SOREE
9% chance
Suggested:
SHORT
6% chance
Suggested:
SATYR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.1% →
SOREE 5.52 bits
9.5% →
SHORT 5.73 bits
5.6% →
SATYR 4.86 bits
4.9% →
SHIRT 5.11 bits
4.8% →
TARSE 4.51 bits
3.7% →
TRIDE 4.57 bits
3.5% →
SHART 4.78 bits
3.2% →
STURE 4.09 bits
2.9% →
SETER 4.17 bits
2.9% →
STONY 4.63 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1L1A1I1N1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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