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

ENURE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

To inure; to make accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant due to constant exposure.

Verb

To take effect, to be operative; used with to.

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

Etymology

From en- + ure. Variant form of inure.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use ENURE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.1% 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 ENURE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ENURE 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 81.2% of games, misses completely in 18.8%, and leaves about 164 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,652 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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 ENURE 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.

4.76 Entropy (bits)
164 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ENURE 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#7,652 Rank among openers
Opening with ENURE left 2 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 3.71 average. It ranks #7,652 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
832
4 guesses
1,193
5 guesses
238
6 guesses
25

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
ENRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
33%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

ENURE can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

449 answers
206 answers
170 answers
167 answers
165 answers
141 answers
109 answers
69 answers
63 answers
63 answers
58 answers
54 answers
43 answers
34 answers
32 answers
32 answers
29 answers
27 answers
27 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1N1U1R1E1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing ENURE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ENURE:

19% chance
Suggested:
SALTY
9% chance
Suggested:
COAST
7% chance
Suggested:
DEALT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.8% →
SALTY 5.83 bits
8.6% →
COAST 5.35 bits
7.1% →
DEALT 5.45 bits
7.0% →
COALY 5.00 bits
6.9% →
SOLAR 4.17 bits
5.9% →
SHALT 5.24 bits
4.6% →
SADLY 4.40 bits
2.9% →
ALIEN 4.41 bits
2.6% →
COAST 3.97 bits
2.6% →
COAST 4.66 bits

Research on ENURE

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

Optimal play

Opening with ENURE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #7,193 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 ENURE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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
ENURE sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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