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

PARMO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A north-eastern English dish of deep-fried breaded chicken topped with béchamel sauce and cheese, sometimes served like a pizza with additional toppings.

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 PARMO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PARMO 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 82.2% of games, misses completely in 17.8%, and leaves about 164 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,938 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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.
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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__M_ P in the 1st position and M 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 PARMO.

First-turn measures

All four describe PARMO 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.

4.81 Entropy (bits)
164 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 72% of evaluated openers
1.13 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PARMO 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#1,938 Rank among openers
Opening with PARMO solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #1,938 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
968
4 guesses
1,133
5 guesses
177
6 guesses
11
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
28%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

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

423 answers
224 answers
218 answers
192 answers
144 answers
139 answers
117 answers
58 answers
54 answers
49 answers
41 answers
40 answers
39 answers
31 answers
30 answers
29 answers
27 answers
25 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
21 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1R1M3O1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

STILE SLATE STONE TRIED TRACE TUILE

Strategy after playing PARMO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PARMO:

18% chance
Suggested:
STILE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
STONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.8% →
STILE 6.11 bits
9.4% →
SLATE 5.71 bits
9.2% →
STONE 5.02 bits
8.1% →
TRIED 5.30 bits
6.1% →
TRACE 4.84 bits
5.9% →
TUILE 4.72 bits
4.9% →
CONTE 4.45 bits
2.4% →
BLOAT 4.40 bits
2.3% →
SHUTE 4.54 bits
2.1% →
SLEET 4.79 bits

Research on PARMO

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

Optimal play

Opening with PARMO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,586 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.78 guesses at best and is rank #772 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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 PAHRMOH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PARMO 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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).