5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

PENES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpiːniːz/[ˈpʰiːniːz]/ˈpiniz/

Noun

plural of penis

Noun

plural of pene

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative 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 PENES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PENES 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 76.7% of games, misses completely in 23.3%, and leaves about 207 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,184 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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__E_ P in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL GRATE SLART TRAIN SOLAR CLARY
Words starting with P Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.54 Entropy (bits)
207 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 54% of evaluated openers
1.41 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PENES 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#7,184 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PENES ranks #7,184 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
836
4 guesses
1,233
5 guesses
218
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
33%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

549
225
214
166
128
99
98
73
57
56
53
48
46
36
27
26
24
23
22
22
22
19
17
16
16
14
14
12
12
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PENES:

23% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
10% chance
Suggested:
GRATE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.3% →
CAROL 6.00 bits
9.5% →
GRATE 5.18 bits
9.1% →
SLART 5.26 bits
7.0% →
TRAIN 5.27 bits
5.4% →
SOLAR 4.02 bits
4.2% →
CLARY 4.99 bits
4.2% →
SLART 4.83 bits
3.1% →
COALY 4.33 bits
2.4% →
SAINT 4.43 bits
2.4% →
LAIRY 4.59 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3E1N1E1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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