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

EUSOL

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.6% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

An antiseptic made from chlorinated lime and boric acid.

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 EUSOL performs as a guess

Wordle accepts EUSOL 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 89.0% of games, misses completely in 11.0%, and leaves about 128 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,118 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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 EUSOL 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.

5.05 Entropy (bits)
128 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 86% of evaluated openers
0.90 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How EUSOL 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#6,118 Rank among openers
Opening with EUSOL left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,118 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
890
4 guesses
1,150
5 guesses
218
6 guesses
30
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
3 vowels
Common:
ELOSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
24%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

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

348 answers
260 answers
153 answers
125 answers
119 answers
113 answers
100 answers
90 answers
61 answers
61 answers
50 answers
47 answers
42 answers
42 answers
41 answers
41 answers
39 answers
36 answers
36 answers
34 answers
31 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
24 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1U1S1O1L1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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

Strategy after playing EUSOL

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EUSOL:

15% chance
Suggested:
REATE
11% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
6% chance
Suggested:
CRONY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.7%
REATE 5.52 bits
11.0%
TRAIN 5.70 bits
6.4%
CRONY 4.94 bits
5.3%
TIARE 4.61 bits
5.0%
REATE 4.89 bits
4.8%
SHART 5.24 bits
4.2%
RONTE 4.40 bits
3.8%
CLAIM 4.55 bits
2.6%
PATER 4.36 bits
2.6%
RAINY 3.74 bits

Research on EUSOL

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

Optimal play

Opening with EUSOL, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,816 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.83 guesses at best and is rank #2,377 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it YOOSAWL. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.