5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

PARED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /pɛəd//pɛɹd//peːd/

Verb

simple past and past participle of pare

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 PARED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PARED 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 85.8% of games, misses completely in 14.2%, and leaves about 113 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #895 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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___D P in the 1st position and D in the 5th position P__E_ P in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__D A in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position PA_ED P in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and D in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY TOILE SLANT GROUT SONLY COAST
Words starting with P Words ending with D

First-turn measures

5.29 Entropy (bits)
113 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 95% of evaluated openers
0.66 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PARED 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#895 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PARED ranks #895 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
84
3 guesses
983
4 guesses
1,094
5 guesses
183
6 guesses
9
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
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
38%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

124 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

335
201
163
115
112
111
90
86
73
66
59
51
49
48
48
36
33
33
29
26
25
22
21
18
18
18
17
16
15
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PARED:

14% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
9% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.2% →
SOILY 5.68 bits
8.5% →
TOILE 5.27 bits
6.9% →
SLANT 5.30 bits
4.9% →
GROUT 4.97 bits
4.7% →
SONLY 4.58 bits
4.7% →
SLANT 5.10 bits
3.8% →
SOILY 3.51 bits
3.6% →
COAST 4.56 bits
3.1% →
TOISE 4.55 bits
2.8% →
TOWEL 4.06 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1R1E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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