5-Letter Word

EMPTY

A container that has been emptied

E1
M2
P3
T4
Y5
Letter positions
Word
empty
Position 1
e
Position 2
m
Position 3
p
Position 4
t
Position 5
y
Structure
Vowel count
1
Consonant count
4
Unique letters
5
Repeated letters
No
Vowel positions
1
Game use
Wordle friendly
No
Scrabble score
12

Pattern Frequency

FilterWords% of 12,478
Words with 1 vowel (same as this word)3,73629.9%
Vowels at position 1420.3%
Words with no repeated letters8,01364.2%

Letter-Position Frequency

LetterPositionWords% of dataset
E12882.3%
M21751.4%
P33432.7%
T48787.0%
Y51,25410.0%

Wordle Utility — Tier 3 — Weak opener

No repeated letters
Yes
Vowel count ≥ 2
No 1 vowel
No low-frequency tiles (Q, X, Z, J)
Yes

Tier 3 — Weak opener pool: 2,502 of 12,478 words (20.1%)

Scrabble Value

LetterPositionTile valueShare of score
E118%
M2325%
P3325%
T418%
Y5433%
Total12Higher than 87% of 5-letter words (dataset median: 9)

Frequently Asked Questions

Is EMPTY a good Wordle opening word?
EMPTY has no repeated letters but only 1 vowel, below the ≥2-vowel threshold for opener classification. It falls in the Tier 3 pool of 2,502 words (20.1% of dataset). Better deployed as a second or third guess once vowel positions are partly confirmed.
What does EMPTY mean?
EMPTY: A container that has been emptied.
What is the Scrabble score for EMPTY?
12 points. Tile breakdown: E(1) + M(3) + P(3) + T(1) + Y(4). The highest-value tile is Y (4 points), contributing 33% of the total. This score is higher than 87% of the 12,478-word dataset (dataset median: 9 points).
What percentage of 5-letter words have 1 vowel?
3,736 of the 12,478 words in this dataset have exactly 1 vowel (29.9%). Full vowel-count distribution: 0 vowels: 51 (0.4%), 1 vowel: 3,736 (29.9%), 2 vowels: 7,415 (59.4%), 3 vowels: 1,249 (10.0%), 4 vowels: 27 (0.2%).

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