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PIECE

Yes, PIECE was the Wordle answer on March 14, 2025 (Wordle #1364).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /piːs/

Noun

A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.

“I’d like another piece of pie.”

Noun

A single item belonging to a class of similar items.

“a piece of machinery”

Verb

To assemble (something real or figurative).

“These clues allowed us to piece together the solution to the mystery.”

Verb

To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out.

“to piece a garment”

Alternative forms: peece

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: March 14, 2025 (#1364).

See the full page for that puzzle: March 14, 2025 (#1364).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How PIECE performs as a guess

PIECE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 76.6% of games, misses completely in 23.4%, and leaves about 206 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,555 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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__C_ P in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _I__E I in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PIECE 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.

4.61 Entropy (bits)
206 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 59% of evaluated openers
1.34 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PIECE 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#4,555 Rank among openers
Opening with PIECE left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,555 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
922
4 guesses
1,152
5 guesses
205
6 guesses
17
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
40%
All gray
23%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N G
A S P I C
P I E C E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PIECE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

PIECE can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

556 answers
240 answers
197 answers
171 answers
111 answers
95 answers
69 answers
63 answers
58 answers
54 answers
52 answers
47 answers
44 answers
40 answers
39 answers
37 answers
33 answers
32 answers
30 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3I1E1C3E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

ROAST LATER SLANT SLART SONAR SALTY

Strategy after playing PIECE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PIECE:

23% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
10% chance
Suggested:
LATER
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.4% →
ROAST 5.96 bits
10.1% →
LATER 5.40 bits
8.3% →
SLANT 5.54 bits
7.2% →
SLART 5.20 bits
4.7% →
SONAR 5.40 bits
4.0% →
SALTY 4.34 bits
2.9% →
SLART 4.92 bits
2.7% →
SAULT 4.36 bits
2.4% →
SLART 4.61 bits
2.3% →
SLANT 4.34 bits

Research on PIECE

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

Optimal play

Opening with PIECE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,070 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.86 guesses at best and is rank #3,292 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.72, 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

One syllable Say it PEES.

Rhymes with PEACE LEASE CEASE NIECE OBESE

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PIECE is a kind of part or item.

Synonyms WHILE man part bit pick SPELL

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PIECE sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 110 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 58 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.7 of 5).

In a sentence

Do you want a piece?
© tatoeba.org contributor sundown (CC BY 2.0 FR)
You're a piece of work!
© tatoeba.org contributor megamanenm (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).