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

PIETA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of pietà.

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 PIETA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PIETA 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 89.8% of games, misses completely in 10.2%, and leaves about 115 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,081 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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.
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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

P___A P in the 1st position and A in the 5th position P__T_ P in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _I__A I in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PIETA 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.

5.18 Entropy (bits)
115 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 91% of evaluated openers
0.77 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PIETA 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#3,081 Rank among openers
Opening with PIETA left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #3,081 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
77
3 guesses
932
4 guesses
1,122
5 guesses
204
6 guesses
16
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

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AEIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
90%
Green tile
28%
All gray
10%

Feedback distribution

PIETA can come back 111 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

243 answers
242 answers
237 answers
182 answers
109 answers
91 answers
81 answers
79 answers
65 answers
61 answers
59 answers
54 answers
53 answers
48 answers
47 answers
35 answers
33 answers
29 answers
29 answers
27 answers
25 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3I1E1T1A1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SURLY ROULE CAROL GLARE SLING SLANT

Strategy after playing PIETA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PIETA:

10% chance
Suggested:
SURLY
10% chance
Suggested:
ROULE
10% chance
Suggested:
CAROL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

10.2% →
SURLY 5.39 bits
10.2% →
ROULE 5.21 bits
10.0% →
CAROL 5.30 bits
7.7% →
GLARE 4.71 bits
4.6% →
SLING 4.73 bits
3.8% →
SLANT 4.48 bits
3.4% →
CRUST 5.28 bits
3.3% →
SNIDE 4.37 bits
2.7% →
OUTER 4.72 bits
2.6% →
BRAIN 4.45 bits

Research on PIETA

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

Optimal play

Opening with PIETA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #2,802 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,649 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it PEETUH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PIETA is a kind of representation.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PIETA sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).