5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

EMMEW

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

As an opener, it rules out about 76.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To mew or coop up.

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 EMMEW performs as a guess

Wordle accepts EMMEW 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 57.9% of games, misses completely in 42.1%, and leaves about 561 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,714 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.02 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___W E in the 1st position and W in the 5th position E__E_ E in the 1st position and E in the 4th position

Try next

TRAIL SLART SOLAR SORAL SNARY SLEER
Words starting with E Words ending with W

First-turn measures

2.97 Entropy (bits)
561 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
76.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 1% of evaluated openers
2.98 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How EMMEW 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.

4.02 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#14,714 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, EMMEW ranks #14,714 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
25
3 guesses
472
4 guesses
1,332
5 guesses
483
6 guesses
38
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:
E

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
58%
Green tile
20%
All gray
42%

Feedback distribution

42 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

993
514
178
126
95
61
54
51
39
31
30
23
21
16
15
12
11
11
10
9
8
7
5
4
4
3
3
3
3
2

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EMMEW:

42% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
22% chance
Suggested:
SLART
8% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

42.1% →
TRAIL 5.84 bits
21.8% →
SLART 5.60 bits
7.5% →
SOLAR 4.58 bits
5.3% →
SORAL 4.88 bits
4.0% →
SNARY 4.68 bits
2.6% →
SLEER 4.03 bits
2.3% →
SCENE 3.97 bits
2.2% →
TIARE 4.44 bits
1.7% →
SHART 4.50 bits
1.3% →
SAINT 4.32 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1M3M3E1W4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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