5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer A tier opener

PALET

PALET 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

Noun

Alternative form of pallet (“diminutive pale”).

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.

Why this solver ranks PALET highly

This solver ranks PALET highly because it separates the possible answers well, even though it is not itself a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 88.9% of games, misses completely in 11.1%, and leaves about 92 possible answers on average.

Across the six-turn solver test, it ranks #422 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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__E_ P in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__T A in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

CRONY NOIRE ACORN SENOR CLOUD NORTH
Words starting with P Words ending with T

First-turn measures

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

As an opener

How PALET performs across the solver's possible answers. See the data page for the method.

3.58 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#422 Opener rank
PALET ranks #422 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
100
3 guesses
978
4 guesses
1,099
5 guesses
163
6 guesses
13
Top-ranked in the six-turn solver test: SLANT (3.51 guesses on average in games solved within six). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AELT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
89%
Green tile
40%
All gray
11%

Feedback distribution

136 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

261
199
133
116
111
106
98
89
77
70
62
58
47
39
37
37
31
30
29
28
28
26
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26
22
22
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18

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PALET:

11% chance
Suggested:
CRONY
8% chance
Suggested:
NOIRE
6% chance
Suggested:
ACORN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.1% →
CRONY 5.62 bits
8.4% →
NOIRE 5.28 bits
5.6% →
ACORN 5.03 bits
4.9% →
SENOR 4.23 bits
4.7% →
CLOUD 4.74 bits
4.5% →
NORTH 5.04 bits
4.2% →
DRAKE 4.51 bits
3.8% →
RAYON 4.17 bits
3.3% →
CLAIM 4.12 bits
3.0% →
ROUSE 4.72 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1L1E1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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