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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess A tier opener

PEARL

Yes, PEARL was the Wordle answer on November 22, 2024 (Wordle #1252).

As an opener, it rules out about 96.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /pɜːl/[pʰəːɫ]/pɝl/

Noun

A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.

Noun

Something precious.

Verb

To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl.

Verb

To cause to resemble pearls in shape; to make into small round grains.

“to pearl barley”

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: November 22, 2024 (#1252).

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

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How PEARL performs as a guess

PEARL is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 88.4% of games, misses completely in 11.6%, and leaves about 93 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #530 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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___L P in the 1st position and L in the 5th position P__R_ P in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _E__L E in the 2nd position and L in the 5th position

Try next

HOIST TOISE NASTY GROUT COULD TOILE
Words starting with P Words ending with L

First-turn measures

5.52 Entropy (bits)
93 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
96.0% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PEARL 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#530 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PEARL ranks #530 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
94
3 guesses
980
4 guesses
1,096
5 guesses
167
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AELR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
35%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

R O A T E
B L A N D
P E A R L

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PEARL in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

134 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

274
163
150
142
130
122
73
72
66
57
53
51
50
49
37
36
34
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28
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PEARL:

12% chance
Suggested:
HOIST
7% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
6% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.6% →
HOIST 5.85 bits
6.9% →
TOISE 5.37 bits
6.4% →
TOISE 4.62 bits
6.0% →
NASTY 4.76 bits
5.5% →
GROUT 4.95 bits
5.2% →
COULD 4.70 bits
3.1% →
TOILE 4.49 bits
3.1% →
SAUNT 4.36 bits
2.8% →
MAYOR 4.22 bits
2.4% →
DENSE 4.26 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3E1A1R1L1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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