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

ELDIN

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

No dictionary definition for ELDIN is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it EHLDIHN.

Use ELDIN in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.3% 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 ELDIN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ELDIN 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 84.2% of games, misses completely in 15.8%, and leaves about 160 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,248 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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 ELDIN 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.

4.95 Entropy (bits)
160 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ELDIN 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#1,248 Rank among openers
Opening with ELDIN left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.60 average. It ranks #1,248 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
987
4 guesses
1,109
5 guesses
170
6 guesses
15

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EILN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
25%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

ELDIN can come back 110 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

380 answers
377 answers
122 answers
122 answers
117 answers
103 answers
70 answers
66 answers
64 answers
61 answers
61 answers
50 answers
46 answers
45 answers
42 answers
38 answers
36 answers
32 answers
27 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1L1D2I1N1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing ELDIN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ELDIN:

16% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
16% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
5% chance
Suggested:
SHIRT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.9% →
TARSE 5.79 bits
15.8% →
ROAST 6.10 bits
5.1% →
SHIRT 5.27 bits
5.1% →
SOLAR 5.02 bits
4.9% →
REATE 4.69 bits
4.3% →
GAUNT 5.20 bits
2.9% →
STIRE 4.44 bits
2.8% →
COAST 4.48 bits
2.7% →
SAREE 4.83 bits
2.6% →
GIANT 4.03 bits

Research on ELDIN

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

Optimal play

Opening with ELDIN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,745 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 ELDIN can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ELDIN sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).