5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

ENZYM

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Archaic form of enzyme.

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 ENZYM performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ENZYM 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 76.4% of games, misses completely in 23.6%, and leaves about 355 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,063 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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.

_N__M N in the 2nd position and M in the 5th position

Try next

STAIR ROAST SORAL RAISE COAST MAILE
Words starting with E Words ending with M

First-turn measures

3.47 Entropy (bits)
355 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 6% of evaluated openers
2.48 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ENZYM 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
99.7% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#14,063 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ENZYM ranks #14,063 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
30
3 guesses
589
4 guesses
1,331
5 guesses
368
6 guesses
29
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
1 vowels
Common:
EN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
9%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

49 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

624
556
217
212
136
97
67
63
52
45
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38
31
28
20
13
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11
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3

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ENZYM:

26% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
24% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
9% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.5% →
STAIR 5.42 bits
23.6% →
ROAST 6.12 bits
9.2% →
ROAST 5.14 bits
9.0% →
SORAL 4.95 bits
5.8% →
RAISE 4.72 bits
4.1% →
COAST 5.00 bits
2.8% →
MAILE 4.67 bits
2.7% →
DEARE 4.47 bits
2.2% →
RAINY 3.89 bits
1.9% →
SLART 4.58 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1N1Z10Y4M3
Total: 19 points

Words With Friends

Total: 20 points

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