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

EXOME

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈɛksoʊm/

Noun

The complete exon content of an organism or individual; the subset of the genome that excludes introns.

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 EXOME performs as a guess

Wordle accepts EXOME 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 71.0% of games, misses completely in 29.0%, and leaves about 326 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,158 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.91 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.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

E___E E in the 1st position and E in the 5th position E__M_ E in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _X__E X in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in EXOME.

First-turn measures

All four describe EXOME 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.

3.66 Entropy (bits)
326 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 11% of evaluated openers
2.29 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How EXOME 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.

3.91 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#14,158 Rank among openers
Opening with EXOME left 4 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 3.91 average. It ranks #14,158 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
582
4 guesses
1,304
5 guesses
401
6 guesses
26
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

EXOME can come back 58 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

688 answers
365 answers
244 answers
221 answers
161 answers
81 answers
74 answers
72 answers
59 answers
56 answers
47 answers
44 answers
40 answers
33 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
10 answers
10 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1X8O1M3E1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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

Try next

SAINT ALTER ROANY SLART SAUCY STEER

Strategy after playing EXOME

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EXOME:

29% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
15% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
10% chance
Suggested:
ROANY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.0% →
SAINT 6.08 bits
15.4% →
ALTER 5.26 bits
10.3% →
ROANY 4.85 bits
9.3% →
SLART 5.15 bits
6.8% →
SLART 4.84 bits
3.4% →
SAUCY 4.75 bits
3.1% →
STEER 4.21 bits
3.0% →
LOVER 3.99 bits
2.5% →
SLART 4.04 bits
2.4% →
SERAL 4.10 bits

Research on EXOME

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

Optimal play

Opening with EXOME, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.90 guesses and ranks #13,827 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.06 guesses at best and is rank #6,854 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.91; proven optimal play reaches 3.90. 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 EHKSUHM. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
EXOME sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).