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PEACE

Yes, PEACE was the Wordle answer on August 27, 2023 (Wordle #799).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpiːs/[ˈpʰɪi̯s]

Noun

A state of tranquility, quiet, and harmony. For instance, a state free from civil disturbance.

“Our lounge strives to maintain an environment of peace for the comfort of our customers.”

Noun

A feeling of tranquility, free from oppressive and unpleasant thoughts and emotions.

“The safety equipment will give me some peace of mind.”

Interjection

Peace out; goodbye.

Verb

To make peace; to put at peace; to be at peace.

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: August 27, 2023 (#799).

See the full page for that puzzle: August 27, 2023 (#799).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How PEACE performs as a guess

PEACE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 80.1% of games, misses completely in 19.9%, and leaves about 170 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,707 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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__C_ P in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in PEACE.

First-turn measures

All four describe PEACE used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.84 Entropy (bits)
170 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 74% of evaluated openers
1.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PEACE 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#5,707 Rank among openers
Opening with PEACE left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,707 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
867
4 guesses
1,190
5 guesses
212
6 guesses
18
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AE

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
42%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
A G A P E
P E A C E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PEACE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

PEACE can come back 103 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

473 answers
262 answers
180 answers
132 answers
113 answers
92 answers
83 answers
68 answers
61 answers
60 answers
56 answers
55 answers
52 answers
38 answers
38 answers
34 answers
29 answers
28 answers
28 answers
27 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
15 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3E1A1C3E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SNORT TALON OLDER SOILY SLART ALTER

Strategy after playing PEACE

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to PEACE.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PEACE:

20% chance
Suggested:
SNORT
11% chance
Suggested:
TALON
8% chance
Suggested:
OLDER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.9% →
SNORT 5.82 bits
11.0% →
TALON 5.30 bits
7.6% →
OLDER 4.79 bits
5.6% →
SOILY 4.52 bits
4.8% →
SLART 4.70 bits
3.9% →
ALTER 4.69 bits
3.5% →
SOILY 4.91 bits
2.9% →
REMIT 4.28 bits
2.6% →
SPOIL 4.61 bits
2.5% →
SAULT 4.15 bits

Research on PEACE

Game-tree analysis and word research for PEACE, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with PEACE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,675 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with PEACE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it PEES.

Rhymes with PIECE LEASE CEASE NIECE OBESE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PEACE is a kind of order or harmony.

Synonyms serenity

Opposites war

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PEACE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 105 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 7, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 50 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.

In a sentence

Peace be with all of you!
© tatoeba.org contributor Adelpa (CC BY 2.0 FR)
The peace of life is good.
© tatoeba.org contributor anzart (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).