5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

PAWAW

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

As an opener, it rules out about 75.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Archaic form of powwow.

Verb

Archaic form of powwow.

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 PAWAW performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PAWAW 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 54.5% of games, misses completely in 45.5%, and leaves about 586 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,681 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.00 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__A_ P in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _A__W A in the 2nd position and W in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE STARE RONTE SLIER SOREL SIREN
Words starting with P Words ending with W

First-turn measures

2.93 Entropy (bits)
586 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
75.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 1% of evaluated openers
3.02 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PAWAW 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.

4.00 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#14,681 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PAWAW ranks #14,681 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
20
3 guesses
526
4 guesses
1,272
5 guesses
499
6 guesses
35
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
A

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
54%
Green tile
26%
All gray
46%

Feedback distribution

39 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1074
356
226
131
112
94
90
35
22
22
21
20
17
16
15
13
12
10
9
9
8
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6
5
5
4
3
2
2
2

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PAWAW:

46% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
15% chance
Suggested:
STARE
10% chance
Suggested:
RONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

45.5% →
TOILE 5.97 bits
15.1% →
STARE 5.37 bits
9.6% →
RONTE 4.82 bits
5.6% →
SLIER 5.35 bits
4.7% →
SOREL 4.68 bits
4.0% →
SIREN 5.27 bits
3.8% →
RIONE 5.10 bits
1.5% →
CRAME 4.32 bits
0.9% →
RONTE 3.48 bits
0.9% →
SLART 3.63 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1W4A1W4
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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