5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

PITCH

Yes, PITCH was the Wordle answer on May 19, 2025 (Wordle #1430).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /pɪt͡ʃ/

Noun

A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.

“It is hard to get this pitch off my hand.”

Noun

A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.

“They put pitch on the mast to protect it.”

Verb

To cover or smear with pitch.

Verb

To darken; to blacken; to obscure.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: May 19, 2025 (#1430).

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

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How PITCH performs as a guess

PITCH is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 71.4% of games, misses completely in 28.6%, and leaves about 260 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,710 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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___H P in the 1st position and H in the 5th position P__C_ P in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _I__H I in the 2nd position and H in the 5th position

Try next

ALONE RANSE ALINE CARLE SOLED SERAL
Words starting with P Words ending with H

First-turn measures

4.44 Entropy (bits)
260 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 48% of evaluated openers
1.51 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PITCH 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#3,710 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PITCH ranks #3,710 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
52
3 guesses
946
4 guesses
1,144
5 guesses
196
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:
IT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
26%
All gray
29%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S H U N T
D E P T H
P I T C H

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PITCH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

96 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

674
238
191
134
98
85
78
74
67
53
37
35
35
33
27
26
25
25
24
24
22
18
17
16
14
13
11
11
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PITCH:

29% chance
Suggested:
ALONE
10% chance
Suggested:
RANSE
8% chance
Suggested:
ALINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.6% →
ALONE 5.92 bits
10.1% →
RANSE 5.64 bits
8.1% →
ALINE 5.43 bits
5.7% →
CARLE 5.71 bits
4.2% →
SOLED 4.74 bits
3.6% →
SERAL 5.33 bits
3.3% →
SNARE 4.74 bits
3.1% →
SPAER 5.30 bits
2.8% →
ALONE 4.85 bits
2.2% →
RANEE 4.64 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3I1T1C3H4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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