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

PIRRE

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

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.7% of possible answers.

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 PIRRE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PIRRE 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 80.5% of games, misses completely in 19.5%, and leaves about 174 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,372 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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 PIRRE 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.

4.74 Entropy (bits)
174 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 68% of evaluated openers
1.20 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PIRRE 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#5,372 Rank among openers
Opening with PIRRE left 1 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 3.68 average. It ranks #5,372 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
922
4 guesses
1,148
5 guesses
215
6 guesses
20
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
2 vowels
Common:
EIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
39%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

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

464 answers
240 answers
181 answers
180 answers
145 answers
135 answers
88 answers
55 answers
55 answers
54 answers
54 answers
52 answers
40 answers
39 answers
38 answers
30 answers
26 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3I1R1R1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing PIRRE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PIRRE:

20% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
10% chance
Suggested:
LEANT
8% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.5%
SAULT 5.91 bits
10.1%
LEANT 5.25 bits
7.6%
SAULT 5.39 bits
7.6%
SLANT 5.55 bits
6.1%
SOLAR 4.16 bits
5.7%
ARSON 4.80 bits
3.7%
SALTY 4.20 bits
2.3%
COAST 4.64 bits
2.3%
SLANT 4.68 bits
2.3%
COAST 4.57 bits

Research on PIRRE

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

Optimal play

Opening with PIRRE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.72 guesses and ranks #6,047 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 PIRRE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, 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 PIHR. 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.