5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

PANDA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpændə/[ˈpʰeə̯ndə] ~ [ˈpʰɛə̯ndə]/ˈpandə/

Noun

Ellipsis of giant panda (“Ailuropoda melanoleuca”).

Noun

Ellipsis of panda car (“a black-and-white police car”).

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 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 299 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,914 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 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___A P in the 1st position and A in the 5th position P__D_ P in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _A__A A in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

TORSE SLATE TOISE CLOTE DROLE SLIER
Words starting with P Words ending with A

First-turn measures

4.02 Entropy (bits)
299 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 23% of evaluated openers
1.93 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 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.

3.72 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#7,914 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PANDA ranks #7,914 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
804
4 guesses
1,280
5 guesses
211
6 guesses
12
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
27%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

77 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

698
302
201
159
142
114
76
73
68
48
36
36
36
33
25
20
19
16
15
14
14
14
14
13
10
9
9
9
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PANDA:

30% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
13% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.6% →
TORSE 6.21 bits
12.8% →
SLATE 5.67 bits
8.5% →
TOISE 5.46 bits
6.7% →
CLOTE 4.77 bits
6.0% →
DROLE 5.37 bits
4.8% →
SLIER 5.37 bits
3.2% →
GRISE 4.70 bits
3.1% →
HOISE 4.59 bits
2.9% →
TOISE 4.84 bits
2.0% →
DROLE 4.55 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1N1D2A1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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