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

ELOIN

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

Obsolete spelling of eloign.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use ELOIN in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 95.1% 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 ELOIN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ELOIN 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 90.1% of games, misses completely in 9.9%, and leaves about 116 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,882 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe ELOIN 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.

5.25 Entropy (bits)
116 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ELOIN 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#1,882 Rank among openers
Opening with ELOIN 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 3.62 average. It ranks #1,882 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
976
4 guesses
1,126
5 guesses
163
6 guesses
22

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EILNO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
29%
All gray
10%

Feedback distribution

ELOIN can come back 112 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

343 answers
236 answers
125 answers
117 answers
110 answers
93 answers
82 answers
81 answers
79 answers
73 answers
56 answers
52 answers
49 answers
47 answers
45 answers
45 answers
41 answers
39 answers
39 answers
36 answers
28 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1L1O1I1N1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing ELOIN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ELOIN:

14% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
10% chance
Suggested:
SMART
5% chance
Suggested:
TORCH

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.4% →
TARSE 5.67 bits
9.9% →
SMART 5.82 bits
5.2% →
TORCH 4.96 bits
4.9% →
SHIRT 5.28 bits
4.6% →
REATE 4.77 bits
3.9% →
TRIDE 4.54 bits
3.4% →
TROOP 4.36 bits
3.4% →
SAULT 4.93 bits
3.3% →
SCANT 4.88 bits
3.1% →
SORER 3.99 bits

Research on ELOIN

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

Optimal play

Opening with ELOIN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,320 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.80 guesses at best and is rank #1,323 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).