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Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

ESNES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of esne

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 ESNES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ESNES 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 72.3% of games, misses completely in 27.7%, and leaves about 302 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,718 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.88 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___S E in the 1st position and S in the 5th position E__E_ E in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _S__S S in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL TRADE SLART TRAIN SOLAR COALY
Words starting with E Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.79 Entropy (bits)
302 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 14% of evaluated openers
2.16 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How ESNES 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
99.8% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#13,718 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, ESNES ranks #13,718 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
36
3 guesses
615
4 guesses
1,320
5 guesses
349
6 guesses
28
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
23%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

59 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

653
355
244
185
150
140
78
73
63
42
37
32
23
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ESNES:

28% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
15% chance
Suggested:
TRADE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.7% →
CAROL 5.92 bits
15.1% →
TRADE 5.51 bits
10.3% →
SLART 5.28 bits
7.8% →
TRAIN 5.29 bits
6.4% →
SOLAR 3.96 bits
5.9% →
SLART 4.97 bits
3.3% →
COALY 4.29 bits
3.1% →
ALINE 4.56 bits
2.7% →
SAUNT 4.28 bits
1.8% →
DETER 3.81 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1S1N1E1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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