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

EMOTE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɪˈməʊt//əˈmoʊt//i-/

Verb

To display or express (emotions, mental states, etc.) openly, particularly while acting, and especially in an excessive manner.

Verb

To deliver (a speech), say (lines of a play, words), etc., in a dramatic or emotional manner, especially if overly so.

Noun

A virtual action expressed to other users as a graphic or reported speech rather than a straightforward message.

“She replied with an emote: "*hugs* I'm sorry"”

Noun

Clipping of emoticon.

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 EMOTE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts EMOTE 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 80.7% of games, misses completely in 19.3%, and leaves about 179 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,202 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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___E E in the 1st position and E in the 5th position E__T_ E in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _M__E M in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe EMOTE 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.

4.55 Entropy (bits)
179 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 55% of evaluated openers
1.39 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How EMOTE 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,202 Rank among openers
Opening with EMOTE left 2 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 3.77 average. It ranks #10,202 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
753
4 guesses
1,251
5 guesses
270
6 guesses
22
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:
EOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
32%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

EMOTE can come back 83 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

458 answers
258 answers
188 answers
170 answers
164 answers
110 answers
100 answers
92 answers
65 answers
56 answers
54 answers
49 answers
48 answers
47 answers
46 answers
40 answers
31 answers
31 answers
29 answers
27 answers
21 answers
19 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1M3O1T1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SNAIL ARIEL SAINT LAIRY SLART CLARY

Strategy after playing EMOTE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EMOTE:

19% chance
Suggested:
SNAIL
11% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
8% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.3% →
SNAIL 5.91 bits
10.9% →
ARIEL 5.13 bits
7.9% →
SAINT 5.51 bits
7.2% →
LAIRY 5.02 bits
6.9% →
SLART 4.56 bits
4.6% →
CLARY 4.40 bits
4.2% →
SLART 4.94 bits
3.9% →
SAUCY 4.65 bits
2.7% →
SONAR 4.23 bits
2.4% →
COWER 3.83 bits

Research on EMOTE

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

Optimal play

Opening with EMOTE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,224 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.88 guesses at best and is rank #3,718 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77; proven optimal play reaches 3.75. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 second syllable Say it IHMOHT. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, EMOTE is a kind of play.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
EMOTE sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.3 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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).