Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

ENNOG

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.1% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

An alley situated between terraced houses.

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 ENNOG performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ENNOG 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 77.3% of games, misses completely in 22.7%, and leaves about 305 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,560 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

First-turn measures

All four describe ENNOG 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.

3.90 Entropy (bits)
305 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 18% of evaluated openers
2.04 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ENNOG 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,560 Rank among openers
Opening with ENNOG left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.83 average. It ranks #12,560 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
701
4 guesses
1,255
5 guesses
329
6 guesses
24
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
19%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

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

564 answers
540 answers
238 answers
126 answers
94 answers
79 answers
78 answers
69 answers
58 answers
47 answers
42 answers
40 answers
33 answers
32 answers
31 answers
29 answers
26 answers
22 answers
20 answers
17 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1N1N1O1G2
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing ENNOG

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ENNOG:

24% chance
Suggested:
REATE
23% chance
Suggested:
SLART
10% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.8%
REATE 5.56 bits
22.7%
SLART 6.01 bits
10.0%
SLART 5.28 bits
5.3%
TORSE 4.61 bits
4.0%
STAIR 5.03 bits
3.3%
RAILE 4.78 bits
3.3%
TALER 4.45 bits
2.9%
LAREE 4.61 bits
2.4%
GRAIL 4.59 bits
2.0%
FROND 4.05 bits

Research on ENNOG

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

Optimal play

Opening with ENNOG, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #12,892 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.01 guesses at best and is rank #6,321 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.83, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, 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 first syllable Say it EHNAWG. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.