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

PINDS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.6% 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 PINDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PINDS 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 73.1% of games, misses completely in 26.9%, and leaves about 245 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,814 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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__D_ P in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE STARE CARLE DROLE GRATE LATER
Words starting with P Words ending with S

First-turn measures

All four describe PINDS 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.

4.39 Entropy (bits)
245 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 44% of evaluated openers
1.56 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PINDS 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#2,814 Rank among openers
Opening with PINDS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,814 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
935
4 guesses
1,197
5 guesses
152
6 guesses
15
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
INS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
22%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

PINDS can come back 87 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

636 answers
271 answers
149 answers
140 answers
118 answers
80 answers
72 answers
72 answers
64 answers
59 answers
57 answers
55 answers
51 answers
46 answers
38 answers
36 answers
30 answers
26 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PINDS:

27% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
11% chance
Suggested:
STARE
6% chance
Suggested:
ROATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.9% →
ROATE 6.16 bits
11.5% →
STARE 5.72 bits
6.3% →
ROATE 5.39 bits
5.9% →
CARLE 5.50 bits
5.0% →
DROLE 5.38 bits
3.4% →
GRATE 4.67 bits
3.1% →
LATER 4.71 bits
3.1% →
CARLE 5.21 bits
2.7% →
CAGEY 4.61 bits
2.5% →
CARET 4.83 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3I1N1D2S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

The science of PINDS

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

Optimal play

Opening with PINDS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses — rank #3,405 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with PINDS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63 — at or below the proven-optimal 3.68 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

One syllable — say it PIHNDZ. 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.