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

ENARM

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.1% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To arm; to provide with weapons.

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 ENARM performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ENARM 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 88.0% of games, misses completely in 12.0%, and leaves about 116 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,748 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe ENARM 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.

5.13 Entropy (bits)
116 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 89% of evaluated openers
0.82 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ENARM 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#2,748 Rank among openers
Opening with ENARM left 1 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 3.63 average. It ranks #2,748 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
79
3 guesses
940
4 guesses
1,119
5 guesses
196
6 guesses
19
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AENR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
24%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

ENARM can come back 111 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

284 answers
226 answers
198 answers
154 answers
123 answers
117 answers
92 answers
81 answers
69 answers
66 answers
64 answers
61 answers
61 answers
58 answers
34 answers
34 answers
34 answers
32 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1N1A1R1M3
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing ENARM

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ENARM:

12% chance
Suggested:
SLOTH
10% chance
Suggested:
STILE
8% chance
Suggested:
DOREE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.0%
SLOTH 5.76 bits
9.5%
STILE 5.38 bits
8.3%
DOREE 4.33 bits
6.5%
SALTY 5.07 bits
5.2%
GROUT 4.93 bits
4.9%
SOILY 4.97 bits
3.9%
SALET 4.64 bits
3.4%
SEINE 4.59 bits
2.9%
TAPIR 4.29 bits
2.8%
SOULY 4.73 bits

Research on ENARM

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

Optimal play

Opening with ENARM, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #3,104 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 ENARM can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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 EHNURM. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.