5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet A tier opener

PASTE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /peɪst//ˈpæsteɪ//ˈpɑsteɪ/

Noun

A soft moist mixture, in particular:

Noun

A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid.

Verb

To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.

Verb

To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.

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 PASTE performs as a guess

PASTE 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 87.5% of games, misses completely in 12.5%, and leaves about 103 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #821 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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__T_ P in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

COULD OLDER ACORN GOIER COURT RANDY
Words starting with P Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.43 Entropy (bits)
103 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 97% of evaluated openers
0.52 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PASTE 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#821 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PASTE ranks #821 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
94
3 guesses
941
4 guesses
1,152
5 guesses
153
6 guesses
12
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:
AEST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
38%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B U T C H
P A T T E
P A S T E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PASTE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

132 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

294
217
162
117
97
95
90
79
72
56
56
56
52
50
37
37
37
33
31
31
30
28
27
25
23
21
20
19
18
18

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PASTE:

12% chance
Suggested:
COULD
9% chance
Suggested:
OLDER
7% chance
Suggested:
ACORN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.5% →
COULD 5.63 bits
9.2% →
OLDER 5.06 bits
6.9% →
ACORN 4.98 bits
5.0% →
GOIER 4.39 bits
4.1% →
COURT 5.02 bits
4.0% →
RANDY 4.08 bits
3.8% →
SLUNK 4.85 bits
3.4% →
ENTER 4.61 bits
3.1% →
RENAL 4.74 bits
2.4% →
HOIST 4.16 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1S1T1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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