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

EXODE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.6% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

The final chorus; the catastrophe.

Noun

departure; exodus, especially the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt

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 EXODE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts EXODE 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 70.7% of games, misses completely in 29.3%, and leaves about 317 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,885 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.89 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 EXODE 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.

3.74 Entropy (bits)
317 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 13% of evaluated openers
2.20 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How EXODE 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.

3.89 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#13,885 Rank among openers
Opening with EXODE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.89 average. It ranks #13,885 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
602
4 guesses
1,315
5 guesses
366
6 guesses
30
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:
EO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
30%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

EXODE can come back 60 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

695 answers
323 answers
245 answers
217 answers
146 answers
94 answers
81 answers
75 answers
61 answers
57 answers
54 answers
44 answers
33 answers
25 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
11 answers
9 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1X8O1D2E1
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Strategy after playing EXODE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EXODE:

29% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
14% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
10% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.3%
SAINT 6.04 bits
13.6%
ALTER 5.35 bits
10.3%
ROAST 4.97 bits
9.1%
SLART 5.23 bits
6.1%
SLANT 4.73 bits
4.0%
TRIAD 5.00 bits
3.4%
ARIEL 4.72 bits
3.2%
MOWER 3.94 bits
2.6%
STEER 4.26 bits
2.4%
SLART 4.00 bits

Research on EXODE

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

Optimal play

Opening with EXODE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.88 guesses and ranks #13,520 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 EXODE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.89; proven optimal play reaches 3.88. 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 first syllable Say it EHKSOHD. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, EXODE is a kind of piece.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0).