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Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

PEDES

PEDES is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 89.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /piːdz//ˈpɛdiːz//ˈpeɪ.deɪz/

Noun

pediatrics

Noun

plural of pes

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

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 PEDES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PEDES as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 73.3% of games, misses completely in 26.7%, and leaves about 253 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,466 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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___S P in the 1st position and S in the 5th position P__E_ P in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PEDES 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.

4.31 Entropy (bits)
253 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 39% of evaluated openers
1.64 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PEDES 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#9,466 Rank among openers
Opening with PEDES solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It ranks #9,466 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
777
4 guesses
1,261
5 guesses
255
6 guesses
14
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
2 vowels
Common:
ES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
31%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

PEDES can come back 81 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

633 answers
255 answers
234 answers
143 answers
129 answers
112 answers
95 answers
62 answers
55 answers
54 answers
45 answers
30 answers
29 answers
28 answers
25 answers
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24 answers
22 answers
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13 answers
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12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3E1D2E1S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

TALON SAULT RAILE ROANY DRAIN SLART

Strategy after playing PEDES

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PEDES:

27% chance
Suggested:
TALON
11% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
10% chance
Suggested:
RAILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.7% →
TALON 5.90 bits
10.7% →
SAULT 5.22 bits
9.9% →
RAILE 5.09 bits
6.0% →
ROANY 4.22 bits
5.4% →
DRAIN 5.24 bits
4.7% →
SLART 4.80 bits
4.0% →
CLARY 4.73 bits
2.6% →
ROANY 4.72 bits
2.3% →
SPORT 4.03 bits
2.3% →
COALY 4.51 bits

Research on PEDES

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

Optimal play

Opening with PEDES, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #7,010 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 PEDES can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75; proven optimal play reaches 3.73. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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 PEHDZ. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PEDES is a kind of extremity.

Synonyms foot

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PEDES sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).