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.

No dictionary definition for PIAIS is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

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

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Use PIAIS in a puzzle

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

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 238 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.

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)
238 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.0% Avg ruled out

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

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:

552 answers
366 answers
197 answers
146 answers
141 answers
117 answers
86 answers
76 answers
60 answers
58 answers
47 answers
44 answers
44 answers
37 answers
27 answers
26 answers
26 answers
24 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

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.

Strategy after playing PIAIS

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

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 5.98 bits
15.4%
TALER 5.52 bits
8.3%
ROUET 5.49 bits
6.1%
TRONE 5.15 bits
5.9%
DROLE 4.83 bits
4.9%
RONTE 4.72 bits
3.6%
THALE 4.31 bits
3.2%
SALET 4.74 bits
2.5%
STOLE 4.03 bits
2.4%
RONTE 4.83 bits

Research on PIAIS

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

Optimal play

Opening with PIAIS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #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 and is 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, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).