5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

PAYEE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

one to whom money is paid.

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 PAYEE performs as a guess

PAYEE 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 81.5% of games, misses completely in 18.5%, and leaves about 171 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,914 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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__E_ P in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__E A in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

COURT SLART SOILY NOIRE OLDER THEIR
Words starting with P Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.61 Entropy (bits)
171 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 59% of evaluated openers
1.34 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PAYEE 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#10,914 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PAYEE ranks #10,914 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
745
4 guesses
1,247
5 guesses
281
6 guesses
27
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
44%
All gray
18%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S M I L Y
P A Y E E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PAYEE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

80 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

436
278
164
160
133
117
107
94
90
64
63
52
50
43
39
31
31
29
27
19
19
18
17
17
17
15
12
10
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PAYEE:

18% chance
Suggested:
COURT
12% chance
Suggested:
SLART
7% chance
Suggested:
SOILY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.5% →
COURT 5.97 bits
11.8% →
SLART 5.36 bits
7.0% →
SOILY 4.40 bits
6.8% →
NOIRE 4.37 bits
5.6% →
OLDER 4.20 bits
5.0% →
THEIR 4.83 bits
4.5% →
TALON 4.22 bits
4.0% →
TREAD 4.61 bits
3.8% →
SLART 4.32 bits
2.7% →
SLANT 3.47 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1Y4E1E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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