5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

PEDON

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A three-dimensional body of soil with dimensions large enough to permit the study of individual soil horizons.

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 PEDON performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PEDON 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 83.0% of games, misses completely in 17.0%, and leaves about 168 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,910 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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___N P in the 1st position and N in the 5th position P__O_ P in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _E__N E in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SLART SAINT REATE WORSE ANISE LURID
Words starting with P Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.76 Entropy (bits)
168 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 69% of evaluated openers
1.19 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PEDON 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#1,910 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PEDON ranks #1,910 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
960
4 guesses
1,157
5 guesses
164
6 guesses
10
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:
ENO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
27%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

97 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

402
340
190
146
122
102
71
70
63
61
60
53
47
37
36
29
29
25
25
22
22
19
19
19
18
16
15
15
15
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PEDON:

17% chance
Suggested:
SLART
14% chance
Suggested:
SLART
8% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.0% →
SLART 6.06 bits
14.4% →
SLART 5.87 bits
8.1% →
SLART 5.35 bits
6.2% →
SAINT 5.28 bits
5.2% →
REATE 4.71 bits
4.3% →
WORSE 4.37 bits
3.0% →
ANISE 4.69 bits
3.0% →
SLART 5.34 bits
2.7% →
LURID 4.86 bits
2.6% →
SIREE 4.57 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3E1D2O1N1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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