Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

PADRI

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of padre

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use PADRI in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.6% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How PADRI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PADRI 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 84.7% of games, misses completely in 15.3%, and leaves about 153 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,641 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe PADRI 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)
153 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PADRI 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#2,641 Rank among openers
Opening with PADRI left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,641 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
940
4 guesses
1,177
5 guesses
164
6 guesses
13

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
27%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

PADRI can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

365 answers
240 answers
233 answers
222 answers
142 answers
101 answers
90 answers
66 answers
60 answers
57 answers
53 answers
47 answers
46 answers
43 answers
35 answers
33 answers
33 answers
32 answers
28 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1D2R1I1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing PADRI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PADRI:

15% chance
Suggested:
STOLE
10% chance
Suggested:
SIENT
10% chance
Suggested:
SLATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.3% →
STOLE 5.99 bits
10.1% →
SIENT 5.39 bits
9.8% →
SLATE 5.77 bits
9.3% →
TOUSE 5.55 bits
6.0% →
CLOTE 4.75 bits
4.2% →
CLOSE 4.50 bits
3.8% →
SIENT 4.47 bits
2.8% →
DONUT 4.74 bits
2.5% →
LATER 3.72 bits
2.4% →
STOLE 4.81 bits

Research on PADRI

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

Optimal play

Opening with PADRI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,491 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 PADRI can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PADRI sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).