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PITAS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of pita

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 PITAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PITAS 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 82.9% of games, misses completely in 17.1%, and leaves about 149 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,344 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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___S P in the 1st position and S in the 5th position P__A_ P in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _I__S I in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position PI_AS P in the 1st position, I in the 2nd position, A in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PITAS 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.

4.95 Entropy (bits)
149 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 81% of evaluated openers
1.00 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PITAS 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#1,344 Rank among openers
Opening with PITAS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,344 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
973
4 guesses
1,145
5 guesses
158
6 guesses
11
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:
AIST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
25%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

PITAS can come back 105 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

406 answers
289 answers
142 answers
122 answers
110 answers
90 answers
86 answers
86 answers
75 answers
74 answers
62 answers
61 answers
47 answers
45 answers
40 answers
36 answers
35 answers
31 answers
31 answers
29 answers
25 answers
24 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3I1T1A1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

DROLE GLARE CRINE SHOER TROUT TRONE

Strategy after playing PITAS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PITAS:

17% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
12% chance
Suggested:
GLARE
6% chance
Suggested:
CRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.1% →
DROLE 5.98 bits
12.2% →
GLARE 5.37 bits
6.0% →
CRINE 5.36 bits
5.1% →
SHOER 5.18 bits
4.6% →
TROUT 5.27 bits
3.8% →
TRONE 4.61 bits
3.6% →
SHALE 4.76 bits
3.6% →
DROLE 4.72 bits
3.2% →
RENAL 4.66 bits
3.1% →
ROUET 4.77 bits

Research on PITAS

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

Optimal play

Opening with PITAS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,027 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 PITAS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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 PEETUHZ. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PITAS is a kind of bread.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PITAS sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

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).