5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

PENDU

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of pendoo.

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 PENDU performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PENDU 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 79.3% of games, misses completely in 20.7%, and leaves about 206 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,148 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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___U P in the 1st position and U in the 5th position P__D_ P in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _E__U E in the 2nd position and U in the 5th position

Try next

ROAST SLART SORAL REATE SAREE DROIT
Words starting with P Words ending with U

First-turn measures

4.48 Entropy (bits)
206 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 50% of evaluated openers
1.47 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PENDU 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#4,148 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PENDU ranks #4,148 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
908
4 guesses
1,212
5 guesses
172
6 guesses
12
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:
ENU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
23%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

82 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

487
373
164
143
117
94
86
73
73
62
57
48
48
40
30
29
28
25
23
22
21
20
19
18
15
14
14
12
12
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PENDU:

21% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
16% chance
Suggested:
SLART
7% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.7% →
ROAST 6.03 bits
15.8% →
SLART 5.77 bits
7.0% →
SORAL 5.07 bits
6.1% →
ROAST 5.29 bits
5.0% →
REATE 4.64 bits
4.0% →
SAREE 4.63 bits
3.6% →
DROIT 5.15 bits
3.1% →
SLART 4.58 bits
3.1% →
SLART 5.16 bits
2.6% →
AIDER 4.68 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3E1N1D2U1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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