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

EXEEM

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

As an opener, it rules out about 73.6% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

Alternative form of exeme.

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 EXEEM performs as a guess

Wordle accepts EXEEM 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 54.0% of games, misses completely in 46.0%, and leaves about 626 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,823 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.08 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe EXEEM 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.

2.79 Entropy (bits)
626 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
73.6% Avg ruled out
In the bottom 1% for first-turn entropy
3.15 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How EXEEM 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.

4.08 Avg guesses
99.70% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#14,823 Rank among openers
Opening with EXEEM left 7 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 4.08 average. It ranks #14,823 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
23
3 guesses
441
4 guesses
1,261
5 guesses
570
6 guesses
52
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

3/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
E

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
54%
Green tile
23%
All gray
46%

Feedback distribution

EXEEM can come back 44 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1093 answers
452 answers
203 answers
162 answers
97 answers
59 answers
38 answers
36 answers
33 answers
26 answers
26 answers
24 answers
23 answers
12 answers
9 answers
9 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1X8E1E1M3
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Strategy after playing EXEEM

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EXEEM:

46% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
19% chance
Suggested:
SLART
9% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

46.0%
ROAST 5.86 bits
19.0%
SLART 5.34 bits
8.6%
SOLAR 4.63 bits
6.8%
SAURY 4.78 bits
4.1%
SLART 5.16 bits
2.5%
RAILE 4.55 bits
1.6%
SLANT 3.56 bits
1.5%
SARGE 3.52 bits
1.4%
REVEL 3.53 bits
1.1%
SORAL 4.29 bits

Research on EXEEM

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

Optimal play

Opening with EXEEM, a proven-optimal strategy averages 4.05 guesses and ranks #14,795 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 EXEEM can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 4.08; proven optimal play reaches 4.05. 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it IHKSEEM. 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.