5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

ERGON

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Work, measured in terms of the quantity of heat to which it is equivalent.

Noun

A task or function of a creature.

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 ERGON performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ERGON 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 85.1% of games, misses completely in 14.9%, and leaves about 146 possible answers on average.

Across the six-turn solver test, it ranks #2,707 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___N E in the 1st position and N in the 5th position E__O_ E in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _R__N R in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SLATY SLATE SETAE SALTY SAINT ANISE
Words starting with E Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.97 Entropy (bits)
146 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 82% of evaluated openers
0.98 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener

How ERGON performs across the solver's possible answers. See the data page for the method.

3.63 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#2,707 Opener rank
ERGON ranks #2,707 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
70
3 guesses
940
4 guesses
1,146
5 guesses
182
6 guesses
16
Top-ranked in the six-turn solver test: SLANT (3.51 guesses on average in games solved within six). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
25%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

113 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

352
309
186
154
121
121
74
67
65
64
59
50
38
38
36
34
28
27
23
23
22
21
21
17
17
16
15
14
13
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ERGON:

15% chance
Suggested:
SLATY
13% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
SETAE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.9% →
SLATY 5.83 bits
13.1% →
SLATE 5.91 bits
7.9% →
SETAE 4.67 bits
6.5% →
SALTY 5.04 bits
5.1% →
SAINT 5.13 bits
5.1% →
SLATY 5.01 bits
3.1% →
ANISE 4.55 bits
2.8% →
CADIE 4.40 bits
2.8% →
COAST 4.41 bits
2.7% →
SOLVE 4.32 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1R1G2O1N1
Total: 6 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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