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

PIAIS

PIAIS 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

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 PIAIS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PIAIS 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 76.8% of games, misses completely in 23.2%, and leaves about 237 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,498 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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___S P in the 1st position and S in the 5th position P__I_ P in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

TONER TALER ROUET TRONE TRUCE RONTE
Words starting with P Words ending with S

First-turn measures

All four describe PIAIS 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.

4.24 Entropy (bits)
237 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 35% of evaluated openers
1.71 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PIAIS 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#10,498 Rank among openers
Opening with PIAIS left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.77 average. It ranks #10,498 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
44
3 guesses
785
4 guesses
1,210
5 guesses
288
6 guesses
25
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
3 vowels
Common:
AIS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
33%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

PIAIS can come back 74 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

548 answers
365 answers
197 answers
144 answers
141 answers
115 answers
86 answers
75 answers
60 answers
57 answers
47 answers
44 answers
43 answers
37 answers
26 answers
26 answers
26 answers
23 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PIAIS:

23% chance
Suggested:
TONER
15% chance
Suggested:
TALER
8% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.2% →
TONER 5.96 bits
15.5% →
TALER 5.51 bits
8.3% →
ROUET 5.49 bits
6.1% →
TRONE 5.15 bits
6.0% →
TRUCE 4.91 bits
4.9% →
RONTE 4.69 bits
3.6% →
THALE 4.31 bits
3.2% →
SALET 4.71 bits
2.5% →
STOLE 4.03 bits
2.4% →
RONTE 4.82 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3I1A1I1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

The science of PIAIS

What game-tree analysis and word research measure about PIAIS — each figure with what it means.

Optimal play

Opening with PIAIS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses — rank #10,940 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.95 guesses at best — rank #5,344 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77 — at or below the proven-optimal 3.80 only 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) — not the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable — say it PYUHS. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.