5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

PHANG

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Obsolete form of fang.

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 PHANG performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PHANG 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 74.9% of games, misses completely in 25.1%, and leaves about 237 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,697 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___G P in the 1st position and G in the 5th position P__N_ P in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _H__G H in the 2nd position and G in the 5th position

Try next

TOILE TALER SILER STIRE STILE DROLE
Words starting with P Words ending with G

First-turn measures

4.36 Entropy (bits)
237 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 42% of evaluated openers
1.59 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PHANG 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#5,697 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PHANG ranks #5,697 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
870
4 guesses
1,220
5 guesses
197
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
1 vowels
Common:
AN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
28%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

83 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

593
321
162
139
100
97
92
79
71
61
60
46
33
32
29
29
28
27
27
23
21
20
19
19
18
18
16
9
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PHANG:

25% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
14% chance
Suggested:
TALER
7% chance
Suggested:
SILER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.1% →
TOILE 6.07 bits
13.6% →
TALER 5.61 bits
6.9% →
SILER 5.18 bits
5.9% →
STIRE 5.14 bits
4.2% →
STILE 5.37 bits
4.1% →
DROLE 5.34 bits
3.9% →
ROUTE 5.08 bits
3.4% →
CANOE 4.47 bits
3.0% →
TRICE 5.18 bits
2.6% →
MOILE 4.81 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3H4A1N1G2
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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