5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

PAINT

Yes, PAINT was the Wordle answer on June 21, 2024 (Wordle #1098).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /peɪnt//pɛjɳʈ//peɳʈ/

Noun

A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.

“fresh coat of paint”

Noun

A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.

Verb

To apply paint to.

“I painted the bathroom walls light blue, and I painted the ceiling white.”

Verb

To apply in the manner that paint is applied.

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: June 21, 2024 (#1098).

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

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How PAINT performs as a guess

PAINT 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 83.2% of games, misses completely in 16.8%, and leaves about 132 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #154 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.56 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___T P in the 1st position and T in the 5th position P__N_ P in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _A__T A in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

SOLER BLARE SHOER COLEY SOLED DORSE
Words starting with P Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.19 Entropy (bits)
132 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 91% of evaluated openers
0.76 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PAINT 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.

3.56 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#154 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PAINT ranks #154 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
72
3 guesses
1,058
4 guesses
1,059
5 guesses
152
6 guesses
11
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:
AINT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
40%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C L I N T
S P O O F
P A I N T

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PAINT in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

118 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

396
246
124
116
109
107
77
64
60
59
58
49
46
46
39
38
38
35
34
33
32
28
25
24
22
15
15
14
14
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PAINT:

17% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
10% chance
Suggested:
BLARE
5% chance
Suggested:
SHOER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.8% →
SOLER 5.98 bits
10.4% →
BLARE 5.34 bits
5.3% →
SHOER 5.48 bits
4.9% →
COLEY 4.69 bits
4.6% →
SOLED 5.09 bits
4.5% →
DORSE 5.00 bits
3.3% →
CRUSE 4.74 bits
2.7% →
SLATE 4.80 bits
2.5% →
SOLER 5.09 bits
2.5% →
SOREL 4.88 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1I1N1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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