5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

PELOG

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

One of the two essential scales of gamelan music native to Bali and Java in Indonesia. It has seven notes, of which sometimes only five are used.

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 PELOG performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PELOG 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 83.6% of games, misses completely in 16.4%, and leaves about 163 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,761 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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___G P in the 1st position and G in the 5th position P__O_ P in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _E__G E in the 2nd position and G in the 5th position

Try next

SAINT STAIR COURT SNAIL REATE RONTE
Words starting with P Words ending with G

First-turn measures

4.72 Entropy (bits)
163 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 67% of evaluated openers
1.23 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PELOG 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#4,761 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PELOG ranks #4,761 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
883
4 guesses
1,226
5 guesses
171
6 guesses
18
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
26%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

88 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

387
319
192
154
124
112
112
70
66
57
55
54
48
36
35
33
32
26
26
21
20
18
18
17
17
16
15
15
14
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PELOG:

16% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
14% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
8% chance
Suggested:
COURT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.4% →
SAINT 6.12 bits
13.5% →
STAIR 5.59 bits
8.1% →
COURT 5.17 bits
6.5% →
SNAIL 4.94 bits
5.3% →
REATE 4.66 bits
4.7% →
RONTE 4.52 bits
4.7% →
CAESE 4.56 bits
3.0% →
MANOR 4.53 bits
2.8% →
COAST 4.47 bits
2.4% →
GRADE 4.44 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3E1L1O1G2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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