5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

PENED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

past of pene

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 PENED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PENED 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 72.3% of games, misses completely in 27.7%, and leaves about 255 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,221 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___D P in the 1st position and D in the 5th position P__E_ P in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _E__D E in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position

Try next

SLART ROAST DROIT COALY ANISE SOILY
Words starting with P Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.41 Entropy (bits)
255 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 45% of evaluated openers
1.54 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PENED 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
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#5,221 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PENED ranks #5,221 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
889
4 guesses
1,193
5 guesses
199
6 guesses
16
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
35%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

92 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

652
279
192
117
95
89
83
67
57
55
49
42
42
34
28
27
26
24
22
21
20
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15
13
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PENED:

28% chance
Suggested:
SLART
12% chance
Suggested:
SLART
8% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

27.7% →
SLART 6.02 bits
11.8% →
SLART 5.77 bits
8.1% →
ROAST 5.30 bits
5.0% →
ROAST 4.29 bits
4.0% →
SLART 5.24 bits
3.8% →
DROIT 4.88 bits
3.5% →
SLART 4.92 bits
2.8% →
COALY 4.38 bits
2.4% →
ANISE 4.65 bits
2.3% →
SOILY 4.47 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3E1N1E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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