5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

INDEW

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

Obsolete spelling of endue.

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 INDEW performs as a guess

Wordle accepts INDEW 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 77.9% of games, misses completely in 22.1%, and leaves about 227 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,964 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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.

I__E_ I in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _N__W N in the 2nd position and W in the 5th position

Try next

ROAST SLART SORAL COAST STIRE CARNE
Words starting with I Words ending with W

First-turn measures

4.37 Entropy (bits)
227 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 43% of evaluated openers
1.58 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How INDEW 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#6,964 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, INDEW ranks #6,964 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
841
4 guesses
1,209
5 guesses
235
6 guesses
10
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)
78%
Green tile
20%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

520
379
215
144
135
89
81
65
57
55
46
32
31
29
28
28
25
23
22
22
21
20
18
18
17
14
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing INDEW:

22% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
16% chance
Suggested:
SLART
9% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.1% →
ROAST 6.04 bits
16.1% →
SLART 5.93 bits
9.1% →
SLART 5.31 bits
6.1% →
SORAL 4.59 bits
5.7% →
COAST 5.12 bits
3.8% →
COAST 4.62 bits
3.4% →
STIRE 4.38 bits
2.8% →
CARNE 4.50 bits
2.4% →
REATE 4.70 bits
2.3% →
SAURY 4.73 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

I1N1D2E1W4
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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