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PACTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /pækts/

Noun

plural of pact

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of pact

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 PACTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PACTS 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 79.7% of games, misses completely in 20.3%, and leaves about 171 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #947 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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.

P___S P in the 1st position and S in the 5th position P__T_ P in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PACTS 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.

4.80 Entropy (bits)
171 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 72% of evaluated openers
1.14 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PACTS 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.66 Spread of game lengths
#947 Rank among openers
Opening with PACTS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.66 means those games clustered within about 0.66 of a guess of the 3.60 average. It ranks #947 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
996
4 guesses
1,149
5 guesses
142
6 guesses
10
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
26%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

PACTS can come back 96 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

481 answers
231 answers
161 answers
159 answers
132 answers
116 answers
79 answers
66 answers
64 answers
57 answers
52 answers
50 answers
43 answers
42 answers
41 answers
40 answers
36 answers
31 answers
30 answers
27 answers
21 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1C3T1S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

DROLE SHINE TONER CRINE MORNE ROUET

Strategy after playing PACTS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PACTS:

20% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
10% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
7% chance
Suggested:
SHINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.3% →
DROLE 6.11 bits
9.7% →
DROLE 5.55 bits
6.8% →
SHINE 5.32 bits
6.7% →
TONER 5.38 bits
5.6% →
CRINE 5.27 bits
4.9% →
MORNE 4.64 bits
3.3% →
ROUET 4.63 bits
2.8% →
ARIEL 4.70 bits
2.7% →
SHULE 4.67 bits
2.4% →
RIONE 4.46 bits

Research on PACTS

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

Optimal play

Opening with PACTS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,942 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with PACTS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, because the two figures score different answer lists.

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

One syllable Say it PAKTS.

Rhymes with FACTS

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PACTS is a kind of agreement.

Synonyms treaty accord

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PACTS sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (2.9 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).