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Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

APAYS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of apay

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 APAYS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts APAYS 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 70.3% of games, misses completely in 29.7%, and leaves about 300 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,626 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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.

A___S A in the 1st position and S in the 5th position A__Y_ A in the 1st position and Y in the 4th position _P__S P in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE LATER STIRE DROLE DRICE PRICE
Words starting with A Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.92 Entropy (bits)
300 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 19% of evaluated openers
2.03 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How APAYS 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#10,626 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, APAYS ranks #10,626 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
43
3 guesses
738
4 guesses
1,292
5 guesses
263
6 guesses
16
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
22%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

66 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

700
256
246
181
131
106
85
76
71
53
47
36
35
32
32
25
22
21
19
15
12
12
10
10
9
8
8
8
8
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing APAYS:

30% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
11% chance
Suggested:
LATER
10% chance
Suggested:
STIRE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.7% →
TOILE 6.07 bits
10.9% →
LATER 5.45 bits
10.4% →
STIRE 5.49 bits
7.7% →
DROLE 5.01 bits
5.6% →
DRICE 4.97 bits
4.5% →
PRICE 5.34 bits
3.6% →
STILE 4.40 bits
3.2% →
BLORE 4.97 bits
3.0% →
TARDY 3.93 bits
2.2% →
TALER 4.51 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1P3A1Y4S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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