5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

PADMA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

lotus blossom

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 PADMA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PADMA 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 64.2% of games, misses completely in 35.8%, and leaves about 394 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,311 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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.

P___A P in the 1st position and A in the 5th position P__M_ P in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _A__A A in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE SLATE CLOTE RIONE RUOTE SLIER
Words starting with P Words ending with A

First-turn measures

3.70 Entropy (bits)
394 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 12% of evaluated openers
2.25 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PADMA 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#10,311 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PADMA ranks #10,311 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
751
4 guesses
1,257
5 guesses
285
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
A

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
25%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

75 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

843
343
176
169
105
103
77
63
41
37
34
30
24
23
21
20
18
17
14
13
12
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11
11
9
8
8
7
7
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PADMA:

36% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
15% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
7% chance
Suggested:
CLOTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.8% →
TOILE 5.99 bits
14.5% →
SLATE 5.60 bits
7.5% →
CLOTE 4.78 bits
7.2% →
RIONE 5.35 bits
4.5% →
RUOTE 5.25 bits
4.4% →
SLIER 5.33 bits
3.3% →
RIONE 5.13 bits
2.7% →
BEARD 4.74 bits
1.7% →
ROULE 4.43 bits
1.6% →
SERAL 4.57 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1D2M3A1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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