5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

ELEMI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A tree, Canarium luzonicum, native to the Philippines.

Noun

A resin harvested from the tree.

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 ELEMI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ELEMI 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 79.1% of games, misses completely in 20.9%, and leaves about 223 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,750 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

E___I E in the 1st position and I in the 5th position E__M_ E in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _L__I L in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in ELEMI.

First-turn measures

All four describe ELEMI 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.

4.27 Entropy (bits)
223 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 37% of evaluated openers
1.68 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ELEMI 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,750 Rank among openers
Opening with ELEMI left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.78 average. It ranks #10,750 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
756
4 guesses
1,236
5 guesses
285
6 guesses
25
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EIL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
20%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

ELEMI can come back 76 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

497 answers
353 answers
262 answers
145 answers
138 answers
105 answers
83 answers
83 answers
81 answers
57 answers
51 answers
46 answers
44 answers
34 answers
32 answers
30 answers
29 answers
25 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1L1E1M3I1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SNORT ROAST SAINT SOLAR TRINE LATHE

Strategy after playing ELEMI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ELEMI:

21% chance
Suggested:
SNORT
15% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
11% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.9% →
SNORT 5.98 bits
14.9% →
ROAST 5.55 bits
11.0% →
SAINT 5.32 bits
6.1% →
SOLAR 5.01 bits
5.8% →
TRINE 4.77 bits
4.4% →
LATHE 4.37 bits
3.5% →
TRAIL 4.14 bits
3.5% →
COAST 4.54 bits
3.4% →
SONAR 5.00 bits
2.4% →
SHART 4.87 bits

Research on ELEMI

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

Optimal play

Opening with ELEMI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,594 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.91 guesses at best and is rank #4,365 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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.

How it sounds

Three syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it EHLEEMEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, ELEMI is a kind of resin.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ELEMI 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), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).