5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

EYING

EYING is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 90.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

present participle and gerund of eye

Alternative forms: eyeing

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 EYING performs as a guess

EYING is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 82.9% of games, misses completely in 17.1%, and leaves about 216 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,415 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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___G E in the 1st position and G in the 5th position E__N_ E in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _Y__G Y in the 2nd position and G in the 5th position

Try next

ROAST COAST SOLAR LAREE SLART SORAL
Words starting with E Words ending with G

First-turn measures

4.45 Entropy (bits)
216 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 48% of evaluated openers
1.50 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How EYING 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#9,415 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, EYING ranks #9,415 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
805
4 guesses
1,202
5 guesses
266
6 guesses
27
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
20%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E N
E K I N G
E Y I N G

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches EYING in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

87 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

493
403
175
133
90
85
80
74
67
66
59
53
48
41
37
35
31
26
23
21
19
19
16
15
14
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10
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing EYING:

21% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
17% chance
Suggested:
COAST
7% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.9% →
ROAST 5.67 bits
17.1% →
COAST 6.07 bits
7.4% →
SOLAR 5.05 bits
5.6% →
ROAST 5.22 bits
3.8% →
LAREE 4.59 bits
3.6% →
SLART 5.01 bits
3.4% →
SORAL 4.89 bits
3.1% →
ALURE 4.62 bits
2.8% →
TILDE 4.45 bits
2.8% →
CRATE 4.17 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

E1Y4I1N1G2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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