5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

EMMET

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɛmɪt/

Noun

A tourist.

Noun

An ant.

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 EMMET performs as a guess

Wordle accepts EMMET 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 69.0% of games, misses completely in 31.0%, and leaves about 348 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,064 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.91 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___T E in the 1st position and T in the 5th position E__E_ E in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _M__T M in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

SALON SNARE SONAR SOLAR TARTE MACRO
Words starting with E Words ending with T

First-turn measures

3.65 Entropy (bits)
348 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 10% of evaluated openers
2.30 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How EMMET 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.

3.91 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#14,064 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, EMMET ranks #14,064 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
586
4 guesses
1,326
5 guesses
373
6 guesses
30
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ET

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
69%
Green tile
28%
All gray
31%

Feedback distribution

60 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

731
392
215
165
150
113
106
52
51
49
43
26
26
19
17
15
13
13
12
11
10
10
10
9
8
6
6
6
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EMMET:

31% chance
Suggested:
SALON
17% chance
Suggested:
SNARE
9% chance
Suggested:
SONAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.0% →
SALON 5.79 bits
16.6% →
SNARE 5.30 bits
9.1% →
SONAR 5.19 bits
7.0% →
SOLAR 4.53 bits
6.4% →
SONAR 4.94 bits
4.8% →
TARTE 4.75 bits
4.5% →
MACRO 5.03 bits
2.2% →
SCIRE 3.91 bits
2.2% →
SLEER 3.87 bits
2.1% →
SERAL 4.39 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1M3M3E1T1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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