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EPOXY

Yes, EPOXY was the Wordle answer on March 26, 2022 (Wordle #280).

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɪˈpɒk.si//ɪˈpɑk.si//əˈpɑːk.si/

Adjective

Derived from an epoxide.

Noun

A thermosetting polyepoxide resin used chiefly in strong adhesives, coatings and laminates; epoxy resin.

Verb

To glue with epoxy.

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: March 26, 2022 (#280).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 26, 2022 (#280).

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How EPOXY performs as a guess

EPOXY 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 79.9% of games, misses completely in 20.1%, and leaves about 307 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,769 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___Y E in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position _P__Y P in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe EPOXY 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.

3.79 Entropy (bits)
307 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
87.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 14% of evaluated openers
2.15 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How EPOXY 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
99.83% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#13,769 Rank among openers
Opening with EPOXY left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.88 average. It ranks #13,769 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
646
4 guesses
1,241
5 guesses
395
6 guesses
29
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
29%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

R O A T E
D E M O N
E P O C H
E P O X Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches EPOXY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

EPOXY can come back 60 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

610 answers
476 answers
211 answers
177 answers
125 answers
107 answers
88 answers
77 answers
55 answers
48 answers
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25 answers
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10 answers
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9 answers
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6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1P3O1X8Y4
Total: 17 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Try next

REATE SLANT SONAR SAINT LOVER LAREE

Strategy after playing EPOXY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EPOXY:

26% chance
Suggested:
REATE
20% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
9% chance
Suggested:
SONAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.7% →
REATE 5.45 bits
20.1% →
SLANT 6.05 bits
8.9% →
SONAR 5.07 bits
7.5% →
SAINT 4.76 bits
5.3% →
SLANT 4.84 bits
4.5% →
LOVER 4.47 bits
3.7% →
LAREE 5.05 bits
3.2% →
PLAIT 5.09 bits
2.3% →
SLART 3.96 bits
2.0% →
SADLY 3.54 bits

Research on EPOXY

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

Optimal play

Opening with EPOXY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #13,081 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.04 guesses at best and is rank #6,650 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.88; proven optimal play reaches 3.86. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 IHPAHKSEE.

Rhymes with PROXY MOXIE DOXIE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, EPOXY is a kind of polymer or paste.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
EPOXY sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

In a sentence

After bonding, more ductile epoxy is used to waterproof the bond.
© tatoeba.org contributor hecko2 (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).