5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

PADRE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpɑdɹeɪ/

Noun

A military clergyman.

Noun

A Roman Catholic or Anglican priest.

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 PADRE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PADRE 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 85.8% of games, misses completely in 14.2%, and leaves about 110 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,078 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.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

P___E P in the 1st position and E in the 5th position P__R_ P in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY SLANT BETEL GROUT TENOR SONLY
Words starting with P Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.34 Entropy (bits)
110 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 96% of evaluated openers
0.61 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PADRE 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
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#1,078 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PADRE ranks #1,078 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
80
3 guesses
980
4 guesses
1,108
5 guesses
169
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
40%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

122 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

335
163
146
130
130
121
112
77
65
62
57
51
48
37
36
34
33
29
29
26
24
24
24
23
19
18
18
16
16
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PADRE:

14% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
6% chance
Suggested:
BETEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.2% →
SOILY 5.68 bits
6.9% →
SLANT 5.30 bits
6.2% →
BETEL 5.06 bits
5.5% →
GROUT 5.01 bits
5.5% →
TENOR 3.93 bits
5.1% →
SOILY 4.77 bits
4.7% →
SONLY 4.58 bits
3.3% →
COAST 4.42 bits
2.8% →
WOULD 4.65 bits
2.6% →
SLANT 4.71 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1D2R1E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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