5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

PERST

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of perse

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 PERST performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PERST 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 85.8% of games, misses completely in 14.2%, and leaves about 115 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #158 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.56 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___T P in the 1st position and T in the 5th position P__S_ P in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _E__T E in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

COALY ANILE DRAIN LAIDE SNAIL TITAN
Words starting with P Words ending with T

First-turn measures

5.37 Entropy (bits)
115 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 97% of evaluated openers
0.57 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PERST 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.

3.56 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#158 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PERST ranks #158 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
92
3 guesses
1,035
4 guesses
1,052
5 guesses
158
6 guesses
16
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:
ERST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
35%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

132 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

336
217
168
152
109
102
76
61
50
49
47
43
43
42
41
34
33
31
30
29
25
25
24
24
21
20
20
19
18
18

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PERST:

14% chance
Suggested:
COALY
9% chance
Suggested:
ANILE
7% chance
Suggested:
DRAIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.2% →
COALY 5.79 bits
9.2% →
ANILE 5.55 bits
7.1% →
DRAIN 5.35 bits
6.4% →
LAIDE 4.36 bits
4.6% →
SNAIL 5.08 bits
4.3% →
TITAN 5.00 bits
3.2% →
LIANE 4.35 bits
2.6% →
ANILE 4.39 bits
2.1% →
ANILE 4.51 bits
2.1% →
THALE 4.50 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3E1R1S1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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