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

PINOT

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpiːnoʊ//ˈpinoʊ/

Noun

Any of several grape varieties grown in Europe and North America.

Noun

Any of several wines made from these grapes, in particular pinot noir.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

Borrowed from French pinot, a type of wine or grapevine, from earlier pineau.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it PIHNUHT.

Use PINOT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.0% of possible answers.

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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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

PINOT in Connections

1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How PINOT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PINOT 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 79.5% of games, misses completely in 20.5%, and leaves about 167 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #325 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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.

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Useful pattern pages

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

P___T P in the 1st position and T in the 5th position P__O_ P in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _I__T I in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position PI_OT P in the 1st position, I in the 2nd position, O in the 4th position, and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PINOT 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.

4.93 Entropy (bits)
167 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PINOT 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#325 Rank among openers
Opening with PINOT left 2 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 3.58 average. It ranks #325 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
1,037
4 guesses
1,090
5 guesses
148
6 guesses
11

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
INOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
32%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

PINOT can come back 112 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

488 answers
227 answers
157 answers
151 answers
103 answers
78 answers
78 answers
70 answers
70 answers
67 answers
66 answers
48 answers
48 answers
47 answers
41 answers
34 answers
32 answers
32 answers
27 answers
25 answers
23 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3I1N1O1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

CARLE TARTE SAKER SERAL SHALE SARGE

Strategy after playing PINOT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PINOT:

20% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
10% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
7% chance
Suggested:
TARTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.5% →
CARLE 6.18 bits
9.5% →
CARLE 5.27 bits
6.6% →
TARTE 5.66 bits
6.3% →
CARLE 5.46 bits
4.3% →
SAKER 5.06 bits
3.3% →
SERAL 5.13 bits
3.3% →
SHALE 5.22 bits
2.9% →
SARGE 4.53 bits
2.9% →
SADLY 4.42 bits
2.8% →
CRANE 4.57 bits

Research on PINOT

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

Optimal play

Opening with PINOT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #995 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.77 guesses at best and is rank #572 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PINOT sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).