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ENNUI

Yes, ENNUI was the Wordle answer on June 5, 2023 (Wordle #716).

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɒnˈwiː//ɑnˈwi/

Noun

A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression.

Verb

To make bored or listless; to weary.

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: June 5, 2023 (#716).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 5, 2023 (#716).

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

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How ENNUI performs as a guess

ENNUI 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 81.2% of games, misses completely in 18.8%, and leaves about 270 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,698 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.88 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___I E in the 1st position and I in the 5th position E__U_ E in the 1st position and U in the 4th position _N__I N in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe ENNUI 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.

3.96 Entropy (bits)
270 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.6% 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 opening guess: previous benchmark

How ENNUI 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.

3.88 Avg guesses
99.70% Solved within six
0.75 Spread of game lengths
#13,698 Rank among openers
Opening with ENNUI left 7 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.75 means those games clustered within about 0.75 of a guess of the 3.88 average. It ranks #13,698 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
639
4 guesses
1,268
5 guesses
352
6 guesses
45
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
3 vowels
Common:
EINU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
16%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E N
E K I N G
E N N U I

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ENNUI in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

ENNUI can come back 69 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

535 answers
446 answers
263 answers
166 answers
146 answers
88 answers
80 answers
78 answers
75 answers
48 answers
41 answers
39 answers
32 answers
31 answers
29 answers
27 answers
25 answers
22 answers
18 answers
16 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1N1N1U1I1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

REATE SLART SURLY TRIED GRANT STURE

Strategy after playing ENNUI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ENNUI:

23% chance
Suggested:
REATE
19% chance
Suggested:
SLART
11% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.5% →
REATE 5.48 bits
18.8% →
SLART 5.87 bits
11.1% →
SLART 5.29 bits
7.0% →
SURLY 4.72 bits
6.1% →
TRIED 4.75 bits
3.7% →
GRANT 4.66 bits
3.4% →
STURE 4.45 bits
3.3% →
SORAL 4.45 bits
3.2% →
ROAST 4.61 bits
2.0% →
ROAST 3.92 bits

Research on ENNUI

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

Optimal play

Opening with ENNUI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.89 guesses and ranks #13,595 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with ENNUI can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.88, at or below the proven-optimal 3.89, 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

Three syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it EHNOOEE.

Rhymes with CHEWY GOOEY BLUEY HOOEY

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, ENNUI is a kind of dissatisfaction.

Synonyms boredom

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ENNUI sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

In a sentence

A great black night wrapped the city in an oppressively comforting ennui.
© tatoeba.org contributor Len (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).