5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

EVICT

EVICT is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ɨˈvɪkt//iˈvɪkt//ɪˈvɪkt/

Verb

To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.

“evict a tenant”

Verb

To eject from a memory cache to reduce the cache's size.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 EVICT performs as a guess

EVICT is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 81.3% of games, misses completely in 18.7%, and leaves about 194 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,278 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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___T E in the 1st position and T in the 5th position E__C_ E in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _V__T V in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

SALON SOLAR SONAR TARTE SADLY SORAL
Words starting with E Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.56 Entropy (bits)
194 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 56% of evaluated openers
1.39 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How EVICT 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#7,278 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, EVICT ranks #7,278 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
861
4 guesses
1,175
5 guesses
244
6 guesses
18
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
2 vowels
Common:
EIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
28%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L E E T
E D I C T
E V I C T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches EVICT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

441
407
134
122
112
100
78
74
71
69
62
58
50
48
43
33
31
31
30
24
19
18
16
16
15
15
14
13
13
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EVICT:

19% chance
Suggested:
SALON
17% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
6% chance
Suggested:
SONAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.7% →
SALON 5.82 bits
17.3% →
SOLAR 5.48 bits
5.7% →
SONAR 5.20 bits
5.2% →
TARTE 5.02 bits
4.7% →
SADLY 4.78 bits
4.2% →
SORAL 5.32 bits
3.3% →
SNARY 4.53 bits
3.1% →
SONAR 4.92 bits
3.0% →
RINSE 4.66 bits
2.9% →
SOLAR 4.94 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1V4I1C3T1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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