5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

PHEME

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.6% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfiː.mi/

Proper noun

The personification of fame and renown, her favour being notability, her wrath being scandalous rumours.

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 PHEME performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PHEME 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 68.2% of games, misses completely in 31.8%, and leaves about 317 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,826 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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__M_ P in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _H__E H in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

TONAL RAINY SLART SOUTH MINOR ROANY
Words starting with P Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.07 Entropy (bits)
317 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 26% of evaluated openers
1.88 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PHEME 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#10,826 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PHEME ranks #10,826 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
779
4 guesses
1,217
5 guesses
298
6 guesses
20
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
E

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
35%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

74 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

750
277
226
121
103
72
69
61
59
50
43
42
37
33
27
26
26
25
24
22
21
20
15
13
13
13
11
10
9
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PHEME:

32% chance
Suggested:
TONAL
12% chance
Suggested:
RAINY
10% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.8% →
TONAL 5.88 bits
11.7% →
RAINY 4.93 bits
9.6% →
SLART 5.09 bits
5.1% →
SOUTH 4.94 bits
4.4% →
MINOR 4.81 bits
3.1% →
SLART 5.09 bits
2.9% →
SLART 4.62 bits
2.6% →
SLART 4.88 bits
2.5% →
ROANY 4.67 bits
2.1% →
LATER 4.65 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3H4E1M3E1
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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