Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier for first-turn info

PERAE

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

No dictionary definition for PERAE is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use PERAE in a puzzle

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

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How PERAE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PERAE 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 82.6% of games, misses completely in 17.4%, and leaves about 145 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,099 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe PERAE used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

5.06 Entropy (bits)
145 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PERAE 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.83% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#6,099 Rank among openers
Opening with PERAE left 4 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,099 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
79
3 guesses
871
4 guesses
1,127
5 guesses
252
6 guesses
21

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
41%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

PERAE can come back 111 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

415 answers
266 answers
145 answers
115 answers
112 answers
107 answers
99 answers
96 answers
55 answers
53 answers
51 answers
48 answers
39 answers
37 answers
36 answers
33 answers
33 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3E1R1A1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing PERAE

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to PERAE.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PERAE:

17% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
11% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
6% chance
Suggested:
DROIT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.4% →
SOILY 5.65 bits
11.2% →
SLANT 5.24 bits
6.1% →
DROIT 4.99 bits
4.8% →
TRAIN 4.23 bits
4.7% →
SOILY 4.71 bits
4.5% →
INTEL 5.09 bits
4.2% →
SOILY 3.70 bits
4.0% →
SAULT 4.49 bits
2.3% →
SOULY 4.45 bits
2.2% →
SOULY 4.25 bits

Research on PERAE

Game-tree analysis and word research for PERAE, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with PERAE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,001 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with PERAE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).