PETER
PETER is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈpiːtə//ˈpitɚ/
- Noun
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The penis.
- Noun
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A safe.
- Verb
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Chiefly followed by out: originally (mining), of a vein of ore: to be depleted of ore; now (generally), to diminish to nothing; to dwindle, to trail off.
- Verb
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Synonym of blue peter; to call for trump by throwing away a high card while holding a lower one.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
Unknown. Attested from the 18th century. The Canting Academy defines peeter as “A portmantle”; Green’s Dictionary of Slang list a variety of uses for peter – including trunk or portmanteau – in thieves’ cant in Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. The OED suggests that it may be related to St. Peter being the holder of the keys to God's Kingdom.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it PEETUR.
Rhymes with METER METRE LITER EATER
Related meanings
Synonyms favorite favourite preferred darling favored favoured
In a sentence
Peter is not in now.
I'm going out with Peter.
Use PETER in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 92.6% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
NoThe solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.
Past Wordle answer
No completed appearanceNo appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.
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See what the public sample says →PETER in Connections
2 recorded appearances in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.
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· Puzzle #634
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PETER appeared in WANE (yellow group).
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· Puzzle #117
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PETER appeared in “PETER PAN” CHARACTERS (blue group).
How PETER performs as a guess
Wordle accepts PETER 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 79.5% of games, misses completely in 20.5%, and leaves about 177 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,270 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.
First-turn measures
All four describe PETER 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How PETER 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Feedback distribution
PETER can come back 105 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for PETER; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
Try next
Strategy after playing PETER
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to PETER.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing PETER:
Research on PETER
Game-tree analysis and word research for PETER, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with PETER, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,475 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 PETER can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- PETER sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 76 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.2 of 5).
Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).