5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

PAGAN

PAGAN is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 86.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪɡən/

Adjective

Relating to, characteristic of religions that differ from main world religions.

“Under Christianization, many converted societies transformed their pagan deities into saints.”

Adjective

Savage, immoral, uncivilized, wild.

Noun

A person not adhering to a main world religion; a follower of a pantheistic or nature-worshipping religion.

“This community has a surprising number of pagans.”

Noun

An uncivilized or unsocialized person.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 PAGAN performs as a guess

PAGAN is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 67.9% of games, misses completely in 32.1%, and leaves about 322 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,465 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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___N P in the 1st position and N in the 5th position P__A_ P in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__N A in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE STARE TOISE TORSE SLIER CRUET
Words starting with P Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.01 Entropy (bits)
322 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
86.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 23% of evaluated openers
1.94 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PAGAN 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#9,465 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PAGAN ranks #9,465 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
789
4 guesses
1,246
5 guesses
264
6 guesses
12
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:
AN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
30%
All gray
32%

Example solver route

R O A T E
N A S A L
P A G A N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PAGAN in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

79 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

756
272
205
153
115
89
89
70
56
51
46
33
31
30
21
21
19
18
17
17
16
16
15
12
11
11
10
10
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PAGAN:

32% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
12% chance
Suggested:
STARE
9% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.1% →
TOILE 6.03 bits
11.5% →
STARE 5.43 bits
8.7% →
TOISE 5.36 bits
6.5% →
TORSE 4.83 bits
4.9% →
SLIER 5.35 bits
3.8% →
CRUET 4.57 bits
3.8% →
ROULE 5.25 bits
3.0% →
TOISE 4.87 bits
2.4% →
SOWER 4.53 bits
2.2% →
SOILY 4.13 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1G2A1N1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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