5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

PAWED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /pɔːd//pɔd//pɑd/

Verb

simple past and past participle of paw

Adjective

Having (a specified kind or number of) paws.

“a muddy-pawed puppy”

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 PAWED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PAWED 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 80.8% of games, misses completely in 19.2%, and leaves about 185 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,798 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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___D P in the 1st position and D in the 5th position P__E_ P in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__D A in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position PA_ED P in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and D in the 5th position

Try next

COUNT RINSE SLART SENOR SONLY SOILY
Words starting with P Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.59 Entropy (bits)
185 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 58% of evaluated openers
1.36 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PAWED 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
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#6,798 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PAWED ranks #6,798 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
838
4 guesses
1,221
5 guesses
223
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:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
33%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

92 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

452
283
241
161
139
139
65
60
54
46
44
42
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PAWED:

19% chance
Suggested:
COUNT
12% chance
Suggested:
RINSE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.2% →
COUNT 5.90 bits
12.0% →
RINSE 5.23 bits
10.2% →
SLART 5.41 bits
6.8% →
SLART 5.29 bits
5.9% →
SENOR 4.36 bits
5.9% →
SONLY 4.60 bits
2.8% →
SOILY 4.77 bits
2.5% →
URINE 4.45 bits
2.3% →
DROIT 4.60 bits
2.0% →
SIREN 4.30 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1W4E1D2
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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