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

PARTE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Obsolete spelling of part.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it PAHRT.

Rhymes with START HEART SMART APART CHART

Use PARTE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 96.4% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How PARTE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PARTE 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 88.4% of games, misses completely in 11.6%, and leaves about 85 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #57 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.55 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe PARTE 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.

5.66 Entropy (bits)
85 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
96.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PARTE 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.

3.55 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#57 Rank among openers
Opening with PARTE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.55 average. It ranks #57 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
101
3 guesses
1,030
4 guesses
1,067
5 guesses
143
6 guesses
11

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AERT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
40%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

PARTE can come back 140 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

277 answers
128 answers
127 answers
119 answers
118 answers
100 answers
97 answers
84 answers
81 answers
62 answers
53 answers
51 answers
46 answers
43 answers
43 answers
40 answers
38 answers
36 answers
35 answers
34 answers
33 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
25 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1R1T1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing PARTE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PARTE:

12% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
5% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
5% chance
Suggested:
OLDEN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.6% →
SOILY 5.73 bits
5.4% →
SLAIN 5.08 bits
5.3% →
OLDEN 4.99 bits
5.0% →
SOLED 3.89 bits
4.9% →
SOILY 4.70 bits
4.2% →
HOIST 5.08 bits
4.1% →
GROIN 4.82 bits
3.5% →
SONLY 4.61 bits
3.4% →
BRAND 4.27 bits
2.6% →
SLEET 4.64 bits

Research on PARTE

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

Optimal play

Opening with PARTE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.57 guesses and ranks #13 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 PARTE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.55, at or below the proven-optimal 3.57, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PARTE 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).