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

EXITE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.3% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

An additional lobe on the outer side of the protopodite of a crustacean limb.

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 EXITE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts EXITE 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 74.3% of games, misses completely in 25.7%, and leaves about 254 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,452 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

First-turn measures

All four describe EXITE 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.

4.08 Entropy (bits)
254 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 27% of evaluated openers
1.86 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How EXITE 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
99.79% Solved within six
0.75 Spread of game lengths
#13,452 Rank among openers
Opening with EXITE left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.75 means those games clustered within about 0.75 of a guess of the 3.87 average. It ranks #13,452 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
656
4 guesses
1,252
5 guesses
357
6 guesses
38
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
33%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

EXITE can come back 66 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

610 answers
273 answers
198 answers
197 answers
170 answers
108 answers
107 answers
73 answers
57 answers
55 answers
54 answers
53 answers
46 answers
45 answers
30 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
15 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1X8I1T1E1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing EXITE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EXITE:

26% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
11% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR
8% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.7%
CAROL 5.87 bits
11.5%
SOLAR 5.31 bits
8.3%
SORAL 4.78 bits
8.3%
COAST 5.32 bits
7.2%
SNAIL 4.89 bits
4.5%
SOLAR 4.71 bits
4.5%
CLARY 4.52 bits
3.1%
PLAIT 4.27 bits
2.4%
DINER 4.37 bits
2.3%
SNEER 4.11 bits

Research on EXITE

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

Optimal play

Opening with EXITE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.87 guesses and ranks #13,110 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.03 guesses at best and is rank #6,566 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.87, at or below the proven-optimal 3.87, 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 EHGZYT. 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.