5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

PEACH

Yes, PEACH was the Wordle answer on December 17, 2021 (Wordle #181).

As an opener, it rules out about 93.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpiːt͡ʃ/[ˈpɪi̯t͡ʃ]

Noun

Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.

Noun

Soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.

Adjective

Of or pertaining to the color peach.

Adjective

Particularly pleasing or agreeable.

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: December 17, 2021 (#181).

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

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How PEACH performs as a guess

PEACH 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 84.2% of games, misses completely in 15.8%, and leaves about 157 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,341 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___H P in the 1st position and H in the 5th position P__C_ P in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _E__H E in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

SOILY NOIRE TALON ALTER SIREN TRINE
Words starting with P Words ending with H

First-turn measures

4.93 Entropy (bits)
157 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 79% of evaluated openers
1.02 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PEACH 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
#4,341 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PEACH ranks #4,341 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
68
3 guesses
906
4 guesses
1,152
5 guesses
212
6 guesses
15
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)
84%
Green tile
33%
All gray
16%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C H I L D
B E A C H
P E A C H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PEACH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

117 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

372
315
245
141
116
87
70
61
51
50
50
49
44
44
37
33
32
27
25
22
22
20
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14
13
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PEACH:

16% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
13% chance
Suggested:
NOIRE
10% chance
Suggested:
TALON

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.8% →
SOILY 5.60 bits
13.4% →
NOIRE 5.14 bits
10.4% →
TALON 5.37 bits
6.0% →
ALTER 4.71 bits
4.9% →
SIREN 4.52 bits
3.7% →
TRINE 4.40 bits
3.0% →
SONLY 4.81 bits
2.6% →
SHORT 4.78 bits
2.2% →
CAIRN 4.26 bits
2.1% →
SLART 3.78 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3E1A1C3H4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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