5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

ERBIA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.0% of possible answers.

Open Solver with ERBIA Open Word Finder

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

erbium oxide Er₂O₃; Discovered in 1843, by Carl Gustaf Mosander.

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 ERBIA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ERBIA 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 90.2% of games, misses completely in 9.8%, and leaves about 118 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,489 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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.

E___A E in the 1st position and A in the 5th position E__I_ E in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _R__A R in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

SLOTH SLANT TENSE SLATE SPILT SOREE
Words starting with E Words ending with A

First-turn measures

5.06 Entropy (bits)
118 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 86% of evaluated openers
0.89 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ERBIA 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#5,489 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ERBIA ranks #5,489 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
76
3 guesses
879
4 guesses
1,141
5 guesses
239
6 guesses
17
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
3 vowels
Common:
AEIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
25%
All gray
10%

Feedback distribution

107 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

232
227
214
172
162
144
92
87
82
75
51
48
43
42
39
35
34
31
29
28
26
25
24
23
23
22
21
15
14
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ERBIA:

10% chance
Suggested:
SLOTH
10% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
9% chance
Suggested:
TENSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

9.8% →
SLOTH 5.54 bits
9.6% →
SLANT 5.36 bits
9.1% →
TENSE 5.37 bits
7.3% →
SLATE 5.01 bits
6.9% →
SPILT 4.87 bits
6.1% →
SOREE 4.62 bits
3.9% →
SNIDE 4.65 bits
3.7% →
COAST 4.36 bits
3.5% →
TORCH 4.75 bits
3.2% →
PALET 3.75 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1R1B3I1A1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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