5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

ENLIT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of enlight

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 ENLIT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ENLIT 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 88.2% of games, misses completely in 11.8%, and leaves about 118 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #800 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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___T E in the 1st position and T in the 5th position E__I_ E in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _N__T N in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

SAREE CAROM SAUCY SEARE ROANY SOUTH
Words starting with E Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.22 Entropy (bits)
118 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 93% of evaluated openers
0.72 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ENLIT 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#800 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ENLIT ranks #800 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
85
3 guesses
990
4 guesses
1,091
5 guesses
168
6 guesses
18
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EILNT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
26%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

122 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

304
279
134
117
108
107
104
80
78
76
53
46
43
38
38
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37
34
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18

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ENLIT:

13% chance
Suggested:
SAREE
12% chance
Suggested:
CAROM
6% chance
Suggested:
SAUCY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.9% →
SAREE 5.43 bits
11.8% →
CAROM 5.82 bits
5.7% →
SAUCY 5.02 bits
5.0% →
SEARE 4.59 bits
4.6% →
ROANY 4.92 bits
4.5% →
SOUTH 4.99 bits
4.4% →
TARTE 5.04 bits
3.4% →
SAREE 4.60 bits
3.3% →
CRISP 4.78 bits
3.2% →
PRIED 4.60 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1N1L1I1T1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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