5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

PANGS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of pang

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of pang

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 PANGS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PANGS 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 77.8% of games, misses completely in 22.2%, and leaves about 202 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,216 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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___S P in the 1st position and S in the 5th position P__G_ P in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _A__S A in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE DROLE ROUET TRICE STALE ROULE
Words starting with P Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.53 Entropy (bits)
202 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 54% of evaluated openers
1.42 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PANGS 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.66 Volatility
#3,216 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PANGS ranks #3,216 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
930
4 guesses
1,206
5 guesses
158
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
1 vowels
Common:
ANS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
26%
All gray
22%

Feedback distribution

83 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

524
272
212
142
130
107
69
61
58
55
53
52
50
38
35
35
31
29
23
22
21
21
21
20
18
16
14
13
13
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PANGS:

22% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
12% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
9% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.2% →
TOILE 6.06 bits
11.5% →
DROLE 5.45 bits
9.0% →
ROUET 5.48 bits
6.0% →
TOILE 5.31 bits
5.5% →
TRICE 4.72 bits
4.5% →
STALE 4.89 bits
2.9% →
DROLE 5.18 bits
2.6% →
ROULE 4.92 bits
2.5% →
CRIME 4.27 bits
2.3% →
TOILE 4.67 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1N1G2S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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