5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

ENEWS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of enew

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 ENEWS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ENEWS 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 74.6% of games, misses completely in 25.4%, and leaves about 291 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,376 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.82 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___S E in the 1st position and S in the 5th position _N__S N in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL RAILE SLART RAINY SAINT WARTY
Words starting with E Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.96 Entropy (bits)
291 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 21% of evaluated openers
1.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ENEWS 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.

3.82 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#12,376 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ENEWS ranks #12,376 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
723
4 guesses
1,243
5 guesses
313
6 guesses
35
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:
ENS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
16%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

69 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

599
422
247
214
129
96
50
47
42
37
33
29
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25
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8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ENEWS:

25% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
18% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.4% →
CAROL 5.92 bits
17.9% →
RAILE 5.38 bits
10.5% →
SLART 5.30 bits
9.1% →
RAINY 4.97 bits
5.5% →
SLART 4.79 bits
4.1% →
RAILE 4.65 bits
2.1% →
SAINT 4.38 bits
2.0% →
WARTY 4.60 bits
1.8% →
TREAD 4.43 bits
1.6% →
REVEL 4.20 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1N1E1W4S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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