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

PASAR

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

No dictionary definition for PASAR is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

Check PASAR on Wiktionary or report a missing entry.

Use PASAR in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% 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 PASAR performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PASAR 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 77.4% of games, misses completely in 22.6%, and leaves about 202 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #7,033 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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 PASAR 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.

4.58 Entropy (bits)
202 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.5% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PASAR 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#7,033 Rank among openers
Opening with PASAR left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.70 average. It ranks #7,033 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
835
4 guesses
1,234
5 guesses
210
6 guesses
18

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ARS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
32%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

PASAR can come back 95 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

539 answers
245 answers
191 answers
153 answers
131 answers
109 answers
101 answers
86 answers
76 answers
54 answers
51 answers
46 answers
45 answers
38 answers
33 answers
33 answers
29 answers
27 answers
24 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1S1A1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing PASAR

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PASAR:

23% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
10% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
8% chance
Suggested:
TOILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.6% →
TOILE 6.11 bits
10.3% →
TRONE 5.20 bits
8.0% →
TOILE 5.44 bits
6.4% →
CLONE 5.36 bits
5.5% →
CLOTE 4.65 bits
4.6% →
TOILE 4.00 bits
4.2% →
DRICE 4.38 bits
3.6% →
THALE 4.62 bits
3.2% →
TOUSE 4.94 bits
2.3% →
CLOTE 4.52 bits

Research on PASAR

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

Optimal play

Opening with PASAR, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,225 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 PASAR can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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
PASAR 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).