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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).

See the full page for that puzzle: 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 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 71.5% of games, misses completely in 28.5%, and leaves about 261 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,710 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PITCH 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.

4.44 Entropy (bits)
261 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 opening guess: previous 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% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#3,710 Rank among openers
Opening with PITCH solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It 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 (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
26%
All gray
28%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PITCH in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

PITCH can come back 96 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

677 answers
239 answers
193 answers
135 answers
99 answers
86 answers
78 answers
75 answers
67 answers
54 answers
37 answers
35 answers
35 answers
33 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
25 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
11 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers

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.

Try next

ANOLE RANSE ALINE CARLE SOLED SERAL

Strategy after playing PITCH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PITCH:

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

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.5% →
ANOLE 5.94 bits
10.1% →
RANSE 5.64 bits
8.1% →
ALINE 5.43 bits
5.7% →
CARLE 5.71 bits
4.2% →
SOLED 4.73 bits
3.6% →
SERAL 5.36 bits
3.3% →
SNARE 4.74 bits
3.2% →
SPARE 5.30 bits
2.8% →
ALONE 4.85 bits
2.3% →
RANEE 4.63 bits

Research on PITCH

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

Optimal play

Opening with PITCH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,271 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 #1,302 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, 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

One syllable Say it PIHCH.

Rhymes with WHICH BITCH WITCH MITCH DITCH

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PITCH is a kind of property or throw.

Synonyms sky delivery SHIFT deliver gear cant

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PITCH sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 27 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B2); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 8, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 61 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sound (2.4 of 5).

In a sentence

Is that a football pitch?
© tatoeba.org contributor sundown (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Pitch the ball to me.
© tatoeba.org contributor sharptoothed (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).