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ENDOW

Yes, ENDOW was the Wordle answer on December 5, 2024 (Wordle #1265).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdaʊ//ɛn-/

Verb

To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.

Verb

To enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.

Alternative forms: indow

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: December 5, 2024 (#1265).

See the full page for that puzzle: December 5, 2024 (#1265).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How ENDOW performs as a guess

ENDOW is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 80.4% of games, misses completely in 19.6%, and leaves about 241 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,745 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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__O_ E in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _N__W N in the 2nd position and W in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe ENDOW 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.

4.26 Entropy (bits)
241 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 36% of evaluated openers
1.69 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ENDOW 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#8,745 Rank among openers
Opening with ENDOW left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,745 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
808
4 guesses
1,230
5 guesses
245
6 guesses
20
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:
ENO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
15%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

R O A T E
D E M O N
E N D O W

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ENDOW in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

ENDOW can come back 79 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

485 answers
465 answers
212 answers
155 answers
109 answers
97 answers
89 answers
68 answers
66 answers
55 answers
41 answers
39 answers
37 answers
29 answers
29 answers
28 answers
25 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1N1D2O1W4
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

SLART COAST SAINT TORSE RANEE DEARE

Strategy after playing ENDOW

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ENDOW:

20% chance
Suggested:
SLART
20% chance
Suggested:
SLART
9% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.4% →
SLART 5.81 bits
19.6% →
SLART 6.01 bits
8.9% →
COAST 5.17 bits
6.5% →
SAINT 5.16 bits
4.6% →
TORSE 4.65 bits
4.1% →
RANEE 4.74 bits
3.7% →
DEARE 4.70 bits
2.9% →
TALER 4.46 bits
2.8% →
LAIRY 4.97 bits
2.3% →
TONIC 4.35 bits

Research on ENDOW

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

Optimal play

Opening with ENDOW, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,107 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 ENDOW can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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 second syllable Say it EHNDOW.

Rhymes with ALLOW LOUGH BOUGH PSHAW

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, ENDOW is a kind of enable or give.

Synonyms gift invest empower

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ENDOW 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 (2.5 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); 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).