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

ELFED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of elf

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 ELFED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ELFED 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 70.7% of games, misses completely in 29.3%, and leaves about 298 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,108 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

E___D E in the 1st position and D in the 5th position E__E_ E in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _L__D L in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe ELFED 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.

4.10 Entropy (bits)
298 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 27% of evaluated openers
1.85 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ELFED 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#10,108 Rank among openers
Opening with ELFED left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.76 average. It ranks #10,108 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
748
4 guesses
1,270
5 guesses
273
6 guesses
11
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
2 vowels
Common:
EL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
28%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

ELFED can come back 79 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

695 answers
346 answers
201 answers
126 answers
95 answers
92 answers
86 answers
69 answers
66 answers
47 answers
43 answers
42 answers
41 answers
37 answers
27 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1L1F4E1D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

ROAST LOYAL DROIT SALLE COAST IRADE

Strategy after playing ELFED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ELFED:

29% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
15% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
8% chance
Suggested:
LOYAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.3% →
ROAST 6.05 bits
14.6% →
ROAST 5.65 bits
8.5% →
LOYAL 5.03 bits
5.3% →
ROAST 4.46 bits
4.0% →
DROIT 4.96 bits
3.9% →
SALLE 4.50 bits
3.6% →
COAST 4.60 bits
2.9% →
IRADE 4.69 bits
2.8% →
FRUIT 4.90 bits
2.0% →
SOARE 4.35 bits

Research on ELFED

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

Optimal play

Opening with ELFED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #8,998 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 ELFED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.76, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it EHLFEHD. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ELFED 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.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.1 of 5).

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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).