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

PAISE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 96.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪseɪ//peɪz/

Noun

plural of paisa

Noun

Obsolete form of poise.

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 PAISE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PAISE 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 89.8% of games, misses completely in 10.2%, and leaves about 92 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,833 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.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

P___E P in the 1st position and E in the 5th position P__S_ P in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in PAISE.

First-turn measures

All four describe PAISE 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.

5.52 Entropy (bits)
92 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 99% of evaluated openers
0.42 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PAISE 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
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#1,833 Rank among openers
Opening with PAISE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #1,833 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
88
3 guesses
954
4 guesses
1,102
5 guesses
189
6 guesses
19
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
3 vowels
Common:
AEIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
44%
All gray
10%

Feedback distribution

PAISE can come back 129 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

241 answers
221 answers
157 answers
119 answers
114 answers
102 answers
90 answers
83 answers
71 answers
61 answers
58 answers
52 answers
48 answers
46 answers
43 answers
34 answers
30 answers
29 answers
29 answers
29 answers
28 answers
25 answers
25 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1I1S1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

TRULY DETER ACORN DROIT CONTE RELAY

Strategy after playing PAISE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PAISE:

10% chance
Suggested:
TRULY
9% chance
Suggested:
DETER
7% chance
Suggested:
ACORN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.2% →
TRULY 5.39 bits
9.3% →
DETER 5.45 bits
6.6% →
ACORN 4.99 bits
5.0% →
DROIT 4.72 bits
4.8% →
CONTE 3.98 bits
4.3% →
RELAY 4.67 bits
3.8% →
LOURE 4.31 bits
3.5% →
STORK 4.54 bits
3.0% →
GLINT 4.27 bits
2.6% →
DINER 4.62 bits

Research on PAISE

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

Optimal play

Opening with PAISE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #683 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 PAISE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

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

One syllable Say it PAYZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PAISE is a kind of subunit.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PAISE sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).