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

ENTRE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

Archaic spelling of enter.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it AHNTRAY.

Use ENTRE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.9% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How ENTRE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ENTRE 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 82.8% of games, misses completely in 17.2%, and leaves about 145 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,246 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe ENTRE 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.

4.92 Entropy (bits)
145 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ENTRE 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#5,246 Rank among openers
Opening with ENTRE left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.67 average. It ranks #5,246 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
75
3 guesses
858
4 guesses
1,198
5 guesses
199
6 guesses
21

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENRT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
32%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

ENTRE can come back 106 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

410 answers
179 answers
164 answers
161 answers
151 answers
140 answers
104 answers
74 answers
65 answers
61 answers
60 answers
59 answers
58 answers
55 answers
42 answers
42 answers
32 answers
29 answers
27 answers
25 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
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14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1N1T1R1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing ENTRE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ENTRE:

17% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
8% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
7% chance
Suggested:
SHALT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.2% →
SOILY 5.67 bits
7.5% →
CAROL 5.31 bits
6.9% →
SHALT 5.17 bits
6.8% →
COALY 5.01 bits
6.3% →
SOLAR 4.28 bits
5.9% →
SAULT 4.85 bits
4.4% →
PEDAL 5.03 bits
3.1% →
TAROT 4.62 bits
2.7% →
SHALT 4.71 bits
2.6% →
ALIEN 4.51 bits

Research on ENTRE

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

Optimal play

Opening with ENTRE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,593 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.84 guesses at best and is rank #2,560 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ENTRE 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).