5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

EXIES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Expenses (charged to one's employer).

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 EXIES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts EXIES 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 75.0% of games, misses completely in 25.0%, and leaves about 269 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,997 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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___S E in the 1st position and S in the 5th position E__E_ E in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _X__S X in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TALON CRATE SLART ANTIC ROANY CLARY
Words starting with E Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.90 Entropy (bits)
269 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.6% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How EXIES 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#13,997 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, EXIES ranks #13,997 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
603
4 guesses
1,300
5 guesses
387
6 guesses
26

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
28%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

56 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

589
339
245
210
141
137
105
53
53
51
51
43
38
37
23
23
22
21
17
16
16
15
10
10
8
7
7
7
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EXIES:

25% chance
Suggested:
TALON
14% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.0% →
TALON 5.73 bits
14.4% →
CRATE 5.53 bits
10.4% →
SLART 5.26 bits
8.9% →
ANTIC 5.00 bits
6.0% →
ROANY 4.18 bits
5.8% →
SLART 4.96 bits
4.5% →
CLARY 4.55 bits
2.2% →
TILDE 4.28 bits
2.2% →
CARTE 3.72 bits
2.2% →
SLANT 3.93 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1X8I1E1S1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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