PANDA
PANDA is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈpændə/[ˈpʰeə̯ndə] ~ [ˈpʰɛə̯ndə]/ˈpandə/
- Noun
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Ellipsis of giant panda (“Ailuropoda melanoleuca”).
- Noun
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Ellipsis of panda car (“a black-and-white police car”).
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Borrowed from French panda, of unclear ultimate origin but probably from the second element of nigálya-pónya, a local name for the red panda recorded in Nepal and Sikkim by Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800 or 1801 – 1894), an ethnologist, naturalist and the British Resident of Nepal, possibly from Nepali निँगाले (nĩgāle, “relating to a certain species of bamboo”) (the adjectival form of निँगालो (nĩgālo), a variant of निङालो (niṅālo, “Drepanostachyum intermedium, a species of bamboo”)) + a regional T…
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it PANDUH.
Rhymes with BANDA
In a sentence
I am not a panda.
I saw a panda once.
Use PANDA in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 87.4% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
NoThe solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
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See what the public sample says →PANDA in Connections
2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #653
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PANDA appeared in BLACK-AND-WHITE THINGS (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #202
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PANDA appeared in BLACK-AND-WHITE ANIMALS (yellow group).
How PANDA performs as a guess
Wordle accepts PANDA 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 70.4% of games, misses completely in 29.6%, and leaves about 301 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,914 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe PANDA 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How PANDA 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Feedback distribution
PANDA can come back 78 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for PANDA; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing PANDA
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to PANDA.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing PANDA:
Research on PANDA
Game-tree analysis and word research for PANDA, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with PANDA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.77 guesses and ranks #8,970 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 PANDA can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.77, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- PANDA sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
- Age of acquisition
- Typically learned around age 5, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
- Imageability
- Imageability score: 96 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.2 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).