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

PAHIT

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

No dictionary definition for PAHIT is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 93.1% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 PAHIT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PAHIT 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 81.2% of games, misses completely in 18.8%, and leaves about 164 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,056 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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 PAHIT 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.

4.85 Entropy (bits)
164 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 75% of evaluated openers
1.10 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PAHIT 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#2,056 Rank among openers
Opening with PAHIT solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #2,056 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
991
4 guesses
1,099
5 guesses
187
6 guesses
16
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
33%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

PAHIT can come back 100 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

446 answers
258 answers
212 answers
145 answers
97 answers
97 answers
70 answers
64 answers
55 answers
54 answers
51 answers
50 answers
46 answers
44 answers
42 answers
41 answers
41 answers
34 answers
33 answers
31 answers
27 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1H4I1T1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing PAHIT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PAHIT:

19% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
11% chance
Suggested:
BLORE
9% chance
Suggested:
SNIDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.8%
DROLE 5.99 bits
10.9%
BLORE 5.46 bits
8.9%
SNIDE 5.26 bits
6.1%
SLYER 4.81 bits
4.1%
SOLER 5.36 bits
4.1%
CORSE 5.36 bits
2.9%
SOREL 5.04 bits
2.7%
SLATE 4.61 bits
2.3%
SOREL 5.09 bits
2.3%
CORSE 4.55 bits

Research on PAHIT

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

Optimal play

Opening with PAHIT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,757 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 PAHIT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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

Two syllables, stress on the second syllable Say it PUHHIHT. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.