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PERCH

Yes, PERCH was the Wordle answer on November 23, 2021 (Wordle #157).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /pɜːtʃ//pɝt͡ʃ/

Noun

Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.

Noun

Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family Percidae, especially:

Verb

To rest on a perch (especially, of a bird); to roost.

“The macaw perched on Jim's shoulder.”

Verb

To sit upon the edge of something.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: November 23, 2021 (#157).

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

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How PERCH performs as a guess

PERCH is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 80.6% of games, misses completely in 19.4%, and leaves about 178 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,187 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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___H P in the 1st position and H in the 5th position P__C_ P in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _E__H E in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

SALON SLANE DROIT STAIR CLAIM BLATE
Words starting with P Words ending with H

First-turn measures

4.81 Entropy (bits)
178 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 72% of evaluated openers
1.14 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PERCH 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#3,187 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PERCH ranks #3,187 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
947
4 guesses
1,128
5 guesses
191
6 guesses
21
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
1 vowels
Common:
ER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
29%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E D
S P E R M
P E R C H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PERCH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

109 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

457
298
200
191
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90
57
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37
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PERCH:

19% chance
Suggested:
SALON
13% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
8% chance
Suggested:
DROIT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.4% →
SALON 5.88 bits
12.6% →
SLANE 5.40 bits
8.5% →
DROIT 5.31 bits
8.1% →
STAIR 4.36 bits
3.8% →
CLAIM 4.89 bits
3.8% →
BLATE 4.52 bits
2.4% →
SAINT 4.82 bits
2.3% →
SLANT 4.65 bits
2.1% →
SLANT 3.76 bits
2.1% →
SLATE 4.68 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3E1R1C3H4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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