5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

PEWEE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 79.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpi.wi/

Noun

Any of various tyrant flycatchers of the genus Contopus.

Noun

An American version of the children's game gilli-danda.

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 PEWEE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PEWEE 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 57.9% of games, misses completely in 42.1%, and leaves about 491 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,170 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.92 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___E P in the 1st position and E in the 5th position P__E_ P in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _E__E E in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL SLART SOLAR SLANT SORAL ROANY
Words starting with P Words ending with E

First-turn measures

3.38 Entropy (bits)
491 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
79.2% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PEWEE 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.

3.92 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#14,170 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PEWEE ranks #14,170 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
25
3 guesses
625
4 guesses
1,257
5 guesses
417
6 guesses
29

Composition

3/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
E

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
58%
Green tile
43%
All gray
42%

Feedback distribution

53 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

994
279
174
136
109
104
91
76
37
31
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26
24
21
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5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PEWEE:

42% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
12% chance
Suggested:
SLART
7% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

42.1% →
TRAIL 5.79 bits
11.8% →
SLART 5.08 bits
7.4% →
SOLAR 4.60 bits
5.8% →
SLART 4.81 bits
4.6% →
SLART 5.24 bits
4.4% →
SLANT 5.17 bits
3.9% →
SORAL 4.90 bits
3.2% →
ROANY 4.65 bits
1.6% →
STEER 3.90 bits
1.3% →
SARGE 3.57 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3E1W4E1E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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