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

EVOHE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Interjection

Alternative form of euoi (“Bacchic cry”).

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

Use EVOHE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 88.3% 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 EVOHE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts EVOHE 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 74.1% of games, misses completely in 25.9%, and leaves about 278 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,524 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.87 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe EVOHE 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.

3.94 Entropy (bits)
278 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.3% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How EVOHE 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.

3.87 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#13,524 Rank among openers
Opening with EVOHE solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.87 average. It ranks #13,524 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
630
4 guesses
1,306
5 guesses
345
6 guesses
31

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
29%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

EVOHE can come back 65 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

617 answers
340 answers
242 answers
204 answers
154 answers
140 answers
71 answers
59 answers
58 answers
46 answers
42 answers
42 answers
30 answers
28 answers
27 answers
23 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1V4O1H4E1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing EVOHE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EVOHE:

26% chance
Suggested:
SNAIL
14% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
10% chance
Suggested:
TONAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.9% →
SNAIL 5.89 bits
14.3% →
ALTER 5.32 bits
10.2% →
TONAL 4.97 bits
8.6% →
SLART 5.09 bits
6.5% →
CHART 5.06 bits
5.9% →
SLANT 4.57 bits
3.0% →
MOWER 4.00 bits
2.5% →
REACT 4.62 bits
2.4% →
DETER 4.18 bits
1.9% →
SLANT 4.06 bits

Research on EVOHE

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

Optimal play

Opening with EVOHE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #13,006 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 EVOHE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.87; proven optimal play reaches 3.86. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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).