5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet A tier opener

PARSE

PARSE is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 96.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /pɑːz/[pʰɑːz]/pɑɹs/

Verb

To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by agreement or government; to analyze and describe grammatically.

Verb

To examine closely; to scrutinize.

Noun

An act of parsing; a parsing.

“The parse will fail if the program contains an unrecognised keyword.”

Noun

The result of such an act; a parsing.

“This parse is incorrect and indicates a fault in the parser.”

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

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 PARSE performs as a guess

PARSE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 88.2% of games, misses completely in 11.8%, and leaves about 89 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #378 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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___E P in the 1st position and E in the 5th position P__S_ P in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

COUNT INLET OLDER TONAL DROIT STINK
Words starting with P Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.63 Entropy (bits)
89 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.2% Avg ruled out
In the top 1% for first-turn entropy
0.32 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PARSE 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#378 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PARSE ranks #378 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
99
3 guesses
988
4 guesses
1,079
5 guesses
171
6 guesses
13
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:
AERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
42%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S U R G E
P A R S E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PARSE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

146 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

279
152
134
120
110
105
100
100
86
63
43
42
41
39
37
31
30
30
28
28
26
26
25
24
24
22
22
19
19
19

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PARSE:

12% chance
Suggested:
COUNT
6% chance
Suggested:
INLET
6% chance
Suggested:
OLDER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.8% →
COUNT 5.64 bits
6.4% →
INLET 5.07 bits
5.7% →
OLDER 3.98 bits
5.1% →
TONAL 5.08 bits
4.7% →
DROIT 4.93 bits
4.5% →
STINK 4.93 bits
4.2% →
GUILE 4.67 bits
4.2% →
TANGY 4.03 bits
3.6% →
TRAIN 4.19 bits
2.7% →
METAL 4.57 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1R1S1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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