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Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

PEWEE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 79.3% 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 58.0% of games, misses completely in 42.0%, and leaves about 492 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,170 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.92 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.

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

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in PEWEE.

First-turn measures

All four describe PEWEE 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.

3.38 Entropy (bits)
492 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
79.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 5% of evaluated openers
2.56 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#14,170 Rank among openers
Opening with PEWEE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.92 average. It 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
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

3/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
E

Feedback chances

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

Feedback distribution

PEWEE can come back 53 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

998 answers
279 answers
177 answers
137 answers
112 answers
104 answers
91 answers
76 answers
37 answers
33 answers
30 answers
26 answers
24 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
19 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers

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.

Try next

TRAIL SLART SOLAR SLANT SORAL ROANY

Strategy after playing PEWEE

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to PEWEE.

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.

42.0% →
TRAIL 5.78 bits
11.8% →
SLART 5.08 bits
7.5% →
SOLAR 4.63 bits
5.8% →
SLART 4.80 bits
4.7% →
SLART 5.24 bits
4.4% →
SLANT 5.17 bits
3.8% →
SORAL 4.90 bits
3.2% →
ROANY 4.65 bits
1.6% →
STEER 3.90 bits
1.4% →
SARGE 3.60 bits

Research on PEWEE

Game-tree analysis and word research for PEWEE, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with PEWEE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.93 guesses and ranks #14,210 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 PEWEE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.92, at or below the proven-optimal 3.93, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it PYOOEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PEWEE sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).