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PITTA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpɪtə/

Noun

Alternative spelling of pita.

Noun

Any passerine belonging to the taxonomic family Pittidae.

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 PITTA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PITTA 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 77.1% of games, misses completely in 22.9%, and leaves about 253 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,027 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.
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Useful pattern pages

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

P___A P in the 1st position and A in the 5th position P__T_ P in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _I__A I in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PITTA 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.

4.24 Entropy (bits)
253 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 35% of evaluated openers
1.70 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PITTA 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#9,027 Rank among openers
Opening with PITTA left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.74 average. It ranks #9,027 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
796
4 guesses
1,199
5 guesses
278
6 guesses
16
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:
AIT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
24%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

PITTA can come back 88 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

544 answers
440 answers
189 answers
136 answers
119 answers
110 answers
78 answers
69 answers
67 answers
50 answers
45 answers
37 answers
36 answers
31 answers
29 answers
29 answers
28 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
17 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3I1T1T1A1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SOLER CARLE CRINE CREST LEAST SOLED

Strategy after playing PITTA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PITTA:

23% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
19% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
8% chance
Suggested:
CRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.9% →
SOLER 5.94 bits
18.5% →
CARLE 5.45 bits
8.0% →
CRINE 5.28 bits
5.7% →
CREST 5.47 bits
5.0% →
LEAST 4.83 bits
4.6% →
SOLED 4.63 bits
3.3% →
DRAIN 4.38 bits
2.9% →
SNORE 4.33 bits
2.8% →
SOLER 5.10 bits
2.1% →
CRUSE 4.65 bits

Research on PITTA

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

Optimal play

Opening with PITTA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,649 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 PITTA can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.74, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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 PIHTUH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PITTA is a kind of bird.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PITTA 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 relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).