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

PISCO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A liquor distilled from grapes (a brandy) made in wine-producing regions of Peru and Chile. It is the most widely consumed spirit in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru.

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 PISCO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PISCO 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 79.1% of games, misses completely in 20.9%, and leaves about 198 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,936 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.

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Useful pattern pages

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

P___O P in the 1st position and O in the 5th position P__C_ P in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _I__O I in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PISCO 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.

4.59 Entropy (bits)
198 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 58% of evaluated openers
1.36 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PISCO 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
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,936 Rank among openers
Opening with PISCO left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #2,936 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
58
3 guesses
951
4 guesses
1,143
5 guesses
186
6 guesses
13
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
2 vowels
Common:
IOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
24%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

PISCO can come back 97 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

495 answers
306 answers
195 answers
194 answers
108 answers
85 answers
82 answers
69 answers
68 answers
55 answers
48 answers
47 answers
44 answers
43 answers
36 answers
32 answers
31 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
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16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
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14 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3I1S1C3O1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

TALER STALE TRINE CARLE STORE LEANT

Strategy after playing PISCO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PISCO:

21% chance
Suggested:
TALER
13% chance
Suggested:
TALER
8% chance
Suggested:
STALE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.9% →
TALER 6.11 bits
12.9% →
TALER 5.29 bits
8.2% →
STALE 5.68 bits
8.2% →
TRINE 5.60 bits
4.5% →
TALER 4.66 bits
3.6% →
CARLE 5.30 bits
3.5% →
STORE 4.67 bits
2.9% →
LEANT 4.53 bits
2.9% →
LEANT 5.00 bits
2.3% →
CARLE 4.55 bits

Research on PISCO

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

Optimal play

Opening with PISCO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #3,850 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.80 guesses at best and is rank #1,435 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 3.69, 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 PIHSKOH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PISCO 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 frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).