5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

PAYER

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪ.ɚ/

Noun

One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.

“The company is the largest tax payer in the region.”

Noun

A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the fixed leg and receive the floating leg.

Alternative forms: payor

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 PAYER performs as a guess

PAYER 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 88.1% of games, misses completely in 11.9%, and leaves about 113 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,624 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___R P in the 1st position and R in the 5th position P__E_ P in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _A__R A in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position PA_ER P in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and R in the 5th position

Try next

COUNT TOILE SLANT DROIT SIDLE TOISE
Words starting with P Words ending with R

First-turn measures

5.17 Entropy (bits)
113 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 91% of evaluated openers
0.78 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PAYER 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#4,624 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PAYER ranks #4,624 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
72
3 guesses
882
4 guesses
1,181
5 guesses
197
6 guesses
20
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:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
32%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PAYER in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

114 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

280
227
165
135
128
125
99
93
91
78
78
62
50
38
36
35
31
28
26
22
21
20
20
20
18
18
17
17
17
16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PAYER:

12% chance
Suggested:
COUNT
10% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.9% →
COUNT 5.97 bits
9.6% →
TOILE 5.27 bits
7.0% →
SLANT 5.31 bits
5.7% →
DROIT 4.91 bits
5.4% →
SIDLE 4.31 bits
5.3% →
SLANT 5.03 bits
4.2% →
TOISE 4.69 bits
3.9% →
SLANT 4.21 bits
3.9% →
TOISE 3.39 bits
3.3% →
OLDEN 4.09 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1Y4E1R1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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