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

PARVO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Parvovirus.

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 PARVO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PARVO 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 80.7% of games, misses completely in 19.3%, and leaves about 187 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,265 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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__V_ P in the 1st position and V 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 PARVO.

First-turn measures

All four describe PARVO 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.

4.56 Entropy (bits)
187 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 56% of evaluated openers
1.38 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PARVO 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#7,265 Rank among openers
Opening with PARVO left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.71 average. It ranks #7,265 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
852
4 guesses
1,186
5 guesses
243
6 guesses
16
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)
81%
Green tile
26%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

PARVO can come back 93 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

457 answers
241 answers
237 answers
196 answers
151 answers
148 answers
118 answers
66 answers
62 answers
55 answers
41 answers
35 answers
32 answers
32 answers
30 answers
27 answers
27 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1R1V4O1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

STILE SLATE STONE TRIED TRADE TUILE

Strategy after playing PARVO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PARVO:

19% chance
Suggested:
STILE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
10% chance
Suggested:
STONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.3% →
STILE 6.10 bits
10.2% →
SLATE 5.66 bits
10.0% →
STONE 4.96 bits
8.3% →
TRIED 5.34 bits
6.4% →
TRADE 4.72 bits
6.2% →
TUILE 4.49 bits
5.0% →
TRONE 4.39 bits
2.8% →
SHIEL 4.96 bits
2.6% →
TONAL 4.46 bits
2.3% →
SHUTE 4.46 bits

Research on PARVO

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

Optimal play

Opening with PARVO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,839 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.85 guesses at best and is rank #2,688 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.71, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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 PAHRVOH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PARVO is a kind of virus.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PARVO 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).