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

PANTO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpæn.təʊ/

Noun

Clipping of pantomime.

Noun

Clipping of pantograph.

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 PANTO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PANTO 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 84.9% of games, misses completely in 15.1%, and leaves about 135 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #645 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

P___O P in the 1st position and O in the 5th position P__T_ P in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _A__O A in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in PANTO.

First-turn measures

All four describe PANTO 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.

4.99 Entropy (bits)
135 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 83% of evaluated openers
0.95 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PANTO 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#645 Rank among openers
Opening with PANTO left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.59 average. It ranks #645 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
1,012
4 guesses
1,105
5 guesses
153
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
28%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

PANTO can come back 109 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

358 answers
234 answers
210 answers
146 answers
115 answers
103 answers
90 answers
80 answers
75 answers
63 answers
62 answers
58 answers
52 answers
42 answers
42 answers
39 answers
36 answers
34 answers
27 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1N1T1O1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SLIER SCARE DROLE SHIER SLYER SLART

Strategy after playing PANTO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PANTO:

15% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
10% chance
Suggested:
SCARE
9% chance
Suggested:
DROLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.1% →
SLIER 6.03 bits
9.9% →
SCARE 5.35 bits
8.8% →
DROLE 5.25 bits
6.1% →
SHIER 5.51 bits
4.8% →
SLYER 4.75 bits
4.3% →
SLIER 4.96 bits
3.8% →
SLART 5.06 bits
3.4% →
DROLE 4.44 bits
3.2% →
CRUSE 4.67 bits
2.7% →
GRISE 4.64 bits

Research on PANTO

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

Optimal play

Opening with PANTO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.65 guesses and ranks #1,637 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.76 guesses at best and is rank #430 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.59, at or below the proven-optimal 3.65, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it PANTOH. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PANTO is a kind of mime.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PANTO sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).