5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

PENNA

PENNA 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

Noun

a contour feather

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 PENNA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PENNA 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 81.6% of games, misses completely in 18.4%, and leaves about 208 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,862 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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___A P in the 1st position and A in the 5th position P__N_ P in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _E__A E in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

Try next

COURT TOILE SLART DETER SOULY DOREE
Words starting with P Words ending with A

First-turn measures

4.34 Entropy (bits)
208 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 41% of evaluated openers
1.61 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PENNA 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#10,862 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PENNA ranks #10,862 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
750
4 guesses
1,255
5 guesses
270
6 guesses
29
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:
AEN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
29%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

77 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

434
332
318
206
110
75
64
64
53
53
50
50
39
38
38
38
37
30
28
25
24
22
21
20
16
16
13
9
6
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PENNA:

18% chance
Suggested:
COURT
14% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
13% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.4% →
COURT 5.83 bits
14.1% →
TOILE 5.32 bits
13.5% →
SLART 5.28 bits
8.7% →
SLART 4.95 bits
4.7% →
DETER 4.51 bits
3.2% →
SOULY 4.20 bits
2.7% →
DOREE 4.25 bits
2.7% →
SOILY 4.74 bits
2.2% →
TRAIN 4.34 bits
2.2% →
SLART 4.15 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3E1N1N1A1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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