5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

ELDER

Yes, ELDER was the Wordle answer on February 7, 2022 (Wordle #233).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈeldə//ˈɛldə//ˈɛldɚ/

Adjective

comparative degree of old: older, greater than another in age or seniority.

“It's typical for elder married couples to live in retirement homes.”

Adjective

Closer to the dealer, i.e. receiving cards earlier than others.

Noun

A leader or senior member of a tribe or community, often of considerable age, respected as an authority figure, especially in a counselling, consultative, or ceremonial role.

“We were presented to the village elder.”

Noun

An old person.

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: February 7, 2022 (#233).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How ELDER performs as a guess

ELDER 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 80.1% of games, misses completely in 19.9%, and leaves about 182 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,488 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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 _L__R L in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

Try next

SAINT COAST SALLY STALE DONUT DRAIN
Words starting with E Words ending with R

First-turn measures

4.67 Entropy (bits)
182 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 63% of evaluated openers
1.28 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ELDER 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#5,488 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ELDER ranks #5,488 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
874
4 guesses
1,188
5 guesses
211
6 guesses
16
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
28%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E D
E L D E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ELDER in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

98 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

470
254
210
170
152
99
89
84
70
51
44
41
40
39
39
30
28
28
22
19
19
16
14
14
14
13
13
13
12
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ELDER:

20% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
11% chance
Suggested:
COAST
9% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.9% →
SAINT 6.15 bits
10.8% →
COAST 5.69 bits
8.9% →
SAINT 5.56 bits
7.2% →
SALLY 5.13 bits
6.4% →
COAST 4.89 bits
4.2% →
COAST 4.58 bits
3.8% →
STALE 4.65 bits
3.6% →
COAST 3.49 bits
3.0% →
DONUT 4.87 bits
2.2% →
DRAIN 4.68 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1L1D2E1R1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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