5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

PENIS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpiː.nɪs/[ˈpʰiː.nɪs]/ˈpi.nɪs/

Noun

The male erectile reproductive organ used for sexual intercourse that in the human male and other placental mammals is also used for urination; the tubular portion of the external male genitalia (excluding the scrotum).

“The female clitoris is homologous to the male penis.”

Noun

A similar erectile sexual organ present in the cloacas of male amniotes.

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.

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__I_ P in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _E__S E in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CORAL ORATE SLART CLARY FLIRT GRANT
Words starting with P Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.96 Entropy (bits)
143 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 81% of evaluated openers
0.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PENIS 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#2,502 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PENIS ranks #2,502 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
947
4 guesses
1,149
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:
EINS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
27%
All gray
15%

Feedback distribution

107 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

363
305
155
123
122
111
98
91
70
64
49
48
48
40
38
33
31
31
27
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PENIS:

15% chance
Suggested:
CORAL
13% chance
Suggested:
ORATE
7% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.4% →
CORAL 5.96 bits
12.9% →
ORATE 5.24 bits
6.6% →
SLART 5.32 bits
5.2% →
CLARY 4.84 bits
5.2% →
FLIRT 4.87 bits
4.7% →
SLART 5.05 bits
4.2% →
GRANT 5.01 bits
3.9% →
TILDE 4.66 bits
3.0% →
LAREE 4.47 bits
2.7% →
CARET 4.59 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3E1N1I1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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