5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

PELTS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of pelt

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of pelt

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 PELTS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PELTS 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 85.2% of games, misses completely in 14.8%, and leaves about 132 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,357 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___S P in the 1st position and S in the 5th position P__T_ P in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position PE_TS P in the 1st position, E in the 2nd position, T in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROANY IRADE CAROL TRAIN SNARY ALINE
Words starting with P Words ending with S

First-turn measures

5.04 Entropy (bits)
132 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 85% of evaluated openers
0.91 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PELTS 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#1,357 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PELTS ranks #1,357 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
76
3 guesses
943
4 guesses
1,179
5 guesses
142
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ELST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
26%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

113 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

350
264
161
140
114
110
91
86
86
81
47
42
40
40
34
32
32
31
30
29
26
24
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16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PELTS:

15% chance
Suggested:
ROANY
11% chance
Suggested:
IRADE
7% chance
Suggested:
CAROL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.8% →
ROANY 5.85 bits
11.2% →
IRADE 5.17 bits
6.8% →
CAROL 5.01 bits
5.9% →
TRAIN 5.32 bits
4.8% →
SNARY 4.83 bits
4.7% →
ALINE 4.48 bits
3.9% →
SONAR 4.82 bits
3.6% →
EATER 4.66 bits
3.6% →
DEARE 4.60 bits
3.4% →
ROAST 4.48 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3E1L1T1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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