5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet F tier opener

ENEMY

ENEMY is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 88.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɛnəmi//ˈenəmi//ˈɛnəme/

Noun

Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.

“under enemy duress”

Noun

A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation.

“Rally together against a common enemy.”

Verb

To make an enemy of.

Alternative forms: enemie

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

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 ENEMY performs as a guess

ENEMY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 76.1% of games, misses completely in 23.9%, and leaves about 284 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,149 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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___Y E in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position E__M_ E in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _N__Y N in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

ROAST STAIR SORAL RAILE SLART MAIRE
Words starting with E Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.97 Entropy (bits)
284 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 21% of evaluated openers
1.98 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ENEMY 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#12,149 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ENEMY ranks #12,149 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
716
4 guesses
1,262
5 guesses
308
6 guesses
25
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
2 vowels
Common:
EN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
30%
All gray
24%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E N
B E N C H
E N E M Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ENEMY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

71 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

564
470
218
204
103
89
72
54
51
45
42
40
37
32
29
24
22
21
19
18
16
13
13
13
12
12
11
9
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ENEMY:

24% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
20% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
9% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.9% →
ROAST 6.12 bits
19.9% →
STAIR 5.39 bits
9.2% →
ROAST 5.15 bits
8.7% →
SORAL 4.76 bits
4.4% →
RAILE 4.68 bits
3.8% →
ROAST 5.07 bits
3.1% →
SLART 5.03 bits
2.3% →
MAIRE 4.50 bits
2.2% →
SERAL 4.16 bits
1.9% →
STEER 3.84 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1N1E1M3Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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