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

PANNI

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of pannus

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use PANNI in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 88.9% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How PANNI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PANNI 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 75.5% of games, misses completely in 24.5%, and leaves about 265 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,374 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe PANNI 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.

4.10 Entropy (bits)
265 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PANNI 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#11,374 Rank among openers
Opening with PANNI left 3 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 3.79 average. It ranks #11,374 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
744
4 guesses
1,240
5 guesses
300
6 guesses
23

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AIN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
29%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

PANNI can come back 75 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

584 answers
361 answers
298 answers
171 answers
89 answers
86 answers
62 answers
54 answers
51 answers
47 answers
45 answers
45 answers
40 answers
40 answers
39 answers
35 answers
34 answers
31 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
20 answers
19 answers
16 answers
14 answers
9 answers
9 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1N1N1I1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing PANNI

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PANNI:

24% chance
Suggested:
SOREL
15% chance
Suggested:
REAST
12% chance
Suggested:
TILDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.5% →
SOREL 6.04 bits
15.1% →
REAST 5.57 bits
12.5% →
TILDE 5.24 bits
7.2% →
SLYER 4.73 bits
3.7% →
SOREL 4.94 bits
3.6% →
SOREL 5.25 bits
2.6% →
TRIAL 4.59 bits
2.3% →
TORSE 4.53 bits
2.1% →
FRITE 4.25 bits
2.0% →
GORSE 3.88 bits

Research on PANNI

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

Optimal play

Opening with PANNI, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,876 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 PANNI can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.79, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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
PANNI sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).