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ENJOY

Yes, ENJOY was the Wordle answer on October 10, 2022 (Wordle #478).

As an opener, it rules out about 88.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɛnˈd͡ʒɔɪ//ɪnˈd͡ʒɔɪ//ənˈd͡ʒɔɪ/

Verb

To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.

“Enjoy your holidays! I very much enjoy dancing.”

Verb

To have the use or benefit of something.

“I plan to go travelling while I still enjoy good health.”

Alternative forms: enioy, injoy

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: October 10, 2022 (#478).

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

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How ENJOY performs as a guess

ENJOY 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 82.9% of games, misses completely in 17.1%, and leaves about 271 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,541 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.87 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___Y E in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position E__O_ E in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _N__Y N in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe ENJOY 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.

3.91 Entropy (bits)
271 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 19% of evaluated openers
2.04 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ENJOY 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.

3.87 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#13,541 Rank among openers
Opening with ENJOY left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.87 average. It ranks #13,541 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
641
4 guesses
1,280
5 guesses
360
6 guesses
29
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)
83%
Green tile
26%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
D E M O N
E N J O Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ENJOY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

ENJOY can come back 65 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

575 answers
407 answers
200 answers
174 answers
141 answers
140 answers
117 answers
79 answers
72 answers
61 answers
47 answers
40 answers
38 answers
37 answers
31 answers
22 answers
21 answers
16 answers
14 answers
10 answers
8 answers
8 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1N1J8O1Y4
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Try next

STAIR SLART COURT SAULT TORSE RAISE

Strategy after playing ENJOY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ENJOY:

24% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
17% chance
Suggested:
SLART
8% chance
Suggested:
COURT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.2% →
STAIR 5.51 bits
17.1% →
SLART 6.14 bits
8.4% →
COURT 5.33 bits
7.3% →
SAULT 4.73 bits
5.9% →
STAIR 5.02 bits
5.9% →
TORSE 4.59 bits
4.9% →
RAISE 4.73 bits
3.3% →
TALER 4.46 bits
3.0% →
GONAD 4.19 bits
2.6% →
DROLE 3.72 bits

Research on ENJOY

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

Optimal play

Opening with ENJOY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.87 guesses and ranks #13,276 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.05 guesses at best and is rank #6,815 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.87, at or below the proven-optimal 3.87, 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 EHNJOY.

Rhymes with ANNOY SAVOY DECOY

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, ENJOY is a kind of feel or use.

Synonyms love delight relish REVEL

Opposites suffer

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ENJOY sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 123 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 48 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with internal bodily sensation (3.6 of 5).

In a sentence

I enjoy what I do.
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
I do what I enjoy.
© tatoeba.org contributor DJ_Saidez (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).