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PARER

Yes, PARER was the Wordle answer on September 16, 2022 (Wordle #454).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A tool used to pare things.

Noun

A pencil sharpener.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: September 16, 2022 (#454).

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

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How PARER performs as a guess

PARER is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 82.5% of games, misses completely in 17.5%, and leaves about 157 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,788 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.72 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

P___R P in the 1st position and R in the 5th position P__E_ P in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__R A in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position PA_ER P in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PARER 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.

4.82 Entropy (bits)
157 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 73% of evaluated openers
1.12 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PARER 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
99.79% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#7,788 Rank among openers
Opening with PARER left 5 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 3.72 average. It ranks #7,788 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
818
4 guesses
1,202
5 guesses
244
6 guesses
20
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
36%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G L E A M
P A N S Y
P A P E R
P A R E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PARER in 5 guesses. See the trap-family guide for similar endgames.

Feedback distribution

PARER can come back 101 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

415 answers
257 answers
186 answers
137 answers
131 answers
124 answers
89 answers
89 answers
79 answers
79 answers
64 answers
54 answers
44 answers
39 answers
35 answers
32 answers
30 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1R1E1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SOILY TOILE SLANT SLATE SONLY DROIT

Strategy after playing PARER

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PARER:

17% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
11% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.5% →
SOILY 5.65 bits
10.8% →
TOILE 5.26 bits
7.8% →
SLANT 5.29 bits
5.8% →
SLATE 4.97 bits
5.5% →
SONLY 4.54 bits
5.2% →
DROIT 4.91 bits
3.7% →
OLDEN 4.17 bits
3.7% →
DRAFT 4.08 bits
3.3% →
SONLY 3.54 bits
3.3% →
TOISE 4.52 bits

Research on PARER

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

Optimal play

Opening with PARER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #5,921 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 PARER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.72, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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 PEHRUR. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PARER is a kind of artisan or knife.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PARER 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); 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).