5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

PAINS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /peɪnz/

Noun

plural of pain

Noun

Trouble taken doing something; attention to detail; careful effort.

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of pain

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 PAINS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PAINS 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 82.8% of games, misses completely in 17.2%, and leaves about 145 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,582 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___S P in the 1st position and S in the 5th position P__N_ P in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROUET BLARE TILDE CLOTE COREY THALE
Words starting with P Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.98 Entropy (bits)
145 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 83% of evaluated openers
0.97 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PAINS 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#1,582 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PAINS ranks #1,582 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
985
4 guesses
1,111
5 guesses
175
6 guesses
15
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:
AINS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
34%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

106 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

405
249
155
138
137
103
101
85
64
46
41
40
40
40
39
37
34
34
32
30
28
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21
19
16
15
15
14
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PAINS:

17% chance
Suggested:
ROUET
11% chance
Suggested:
BLARE
7% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.2% →
ROUET 5.92 bits
10.6% →
BLARE 5.52 bits
6.6% →
ROUET 5.48 bits
5.9% →
TILDE 5.17 bits
5.8% →
CLOTE 4.74 bits
4.4% →
COREY 4.83 bits
4.3% →
THALE 4.82 bits
3.6% →
TRUCE 5.06 bits
2.7% →
TINGE 4.40 bits
2.0% →
ROUET 4.80 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1I1N1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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