5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

PESTO

PESTO is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 94.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpɛstoʊ//ˈpɛstəʊ/

Noun

A sauce, especially for pasta, originating from the Genoa region in Italy, made from basil, garlic, pine nuts, olive oil and cheese (usually pecorino).

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

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 PESTO performs as a guess

PESTO 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 86.9% of games, misses completely in 13.1%, and leaves about 132 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,834 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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___O P in the 1st position and O in the 5th position P__T_ P in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _E__O E in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

CAIRN RAILE ADORN LEARE SNARL TAINT
Words starting with P Words ending with O

First-turn measures

5.01 Entropy (bits)
132 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 84% of evaluated openers
0.94 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PESTO 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#1,834 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PESTO ranks #1,834 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
76
3 guesses
937
4 guesses
1,163
5 guesses
161
6 guesses
14
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:
EOST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
25%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P E S T O

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PESTO in 2 guesses.

Feedback distribution

109 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

310
281
213
122
118
116
101
95
78
61
59
43
34
33
32
31
31
30
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PESTO:

13% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN
12% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
ADORN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.1% →
CAIRN 5.96 bits
11.9% →
RAILE 5.48 bits
9.0% →
ADORN 5.11 bits
5.2% →
LEARE 4.64 bits
5.0% →
SNARL 4.87 bits
4.9% →
TAINT 5.14 bits
4.3% →
BORNE 4.36 bits
4.0% →
LAREE 4.85 bits
3.3% →
SHIRE 4.51 bits
2.6% →
TONAL 4.27 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3E1S1T1O1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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