Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

ETUIS

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of etui

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use ETUIS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.9% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How ETUIS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ETUIS 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 87.3% of games, misses completely in 12.7%, and leaves about 145 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,629 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe ETUIS 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.

4.90 Entropy (bits)
145 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ETUIS 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
99.75% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#5,629 Rank among openers
Opening with ETUIS left 6 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,629 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
876
4 guesses
1,170
5 guesses
212
6 guesses
23

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EISTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
21%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

ETUIS can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

374 answers
303 answers
131 answers
115 answers
114 answers
109 answers
109 answers
99 answers
88 answers
70 answers
59 answers
47 answers
46 answers
42 answers
40 answers
38 answers
35 answers
31 answers
30 answers
30 answers
27 answers
25 answers
25 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
19 answers
19 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1T1U1I1S1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 6 points

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

Strategy after playing ETUIS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ETUIS:

16% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
13% chance
Suggested:
CRONY
5% chance
Suggested:
CLARY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.7% →
LEARE 5.46 bits
12.7% →
CRONY 5.76 bits
5.5% →
CLARY 4.79 bits
4.8% →
HEART 4.84 bits
4.8% →
DINER 4.88 bits
4.6% →
SCALP 4.99 bits
4.6% →
PEARE 4.93 bits
4.2% →
TAROT 4.95 bits
3.7% →
MURAL 4.39 bits
2.9% →
GIRTH 4.12 bits

Research on ETUIS

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

Optimal play

Opening with ETUIS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,973 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with ETUIS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, because the two figures score different answer lists.

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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).