5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

ENATE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A relative whose relation is traced only through female members of the family.

“A great-grandmother is an enate if she is your mother’s mother's mother.”

Noun

Any maternal female relative.

Adjective

Related to someone by female connections.

Adjective

Related on the maternal side of the family.

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 ENATE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ENATE 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 85.1% of games, misses completely in 14.9%, and leaves about 123 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,309 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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___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 _N__E N in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY CAROL SOLER HOIST IRONY GORSE
Words starting with E Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.07 Entropy (bits)
123 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 87% of evaluated openers
0.88 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ENATE 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#7,309 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ENATE ranks #7,309 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
823
4 guesses
1,220
5 guesses
219
6 guesses
23
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AENT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
36%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

102 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

352
188
169
138
127
116
100
80
69
66
63
55
52
51
46
42
36
36
34
33
32
29
25
21
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15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ENATE:

15% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
8% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
7% chance
Suggested:
SOLER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.9% →
SOILY 5.59 bits
8.0% →
CAROL 5.19 bits
7.2% →
SOLER 4.94 bits
5.9% →
HOIST 5.34 bits
5.4% →
IRONY 4.92 bits
4.9% →
GORSE 4.57 bits
4.2% →
CRASH 4.54 bits
3.4% →
PALER 4.21 bits
2.9% →
TAROT 4.26 bits
2.8% →
CANON 4.16 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1N1A1T1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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