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

PIYUT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of piyyut.

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 PIYUT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PIYUT 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 74.7% of games, misses completely in 25.3%, and leaves about 223 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,785 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe PIYUT 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.

4.48 Entropy (bits)
223 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 51% of evaluated openers
1.47 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PIYUT 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#4,785 Rank among openers
Opening with PIYUT 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 3.67 average. It ranks #4,785 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
911
4 guesses
1,186
5 guesses
194
6 guesses
14
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:
ITU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
27%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

PIYUT can come back 83 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

601 answers
211 answers
174 answers
162 answers
145 answers
98 answers
92 answers
76 answers
53 answers
47 answers
45 answers
45 answers
44 answers
44 answers
41 answers
34 answers
30 answers
29 answers
27 answers
24 answers
24 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3I1Y4U1T1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing PIYUT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PIYUT:

25% chance
Suggested:
CRANE
9% chance
Suggested:
CRANE
7% chance
Suggested:
TARSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

25.3%
CRANE 6.14 bits
8.9%
CRANE 5.53 bits
7.3%
TARSE 5.52 bits
6.8%
DROLE 4.97 bits
6.1%
SLANE 5.23 bits
4.1%
SERAL 5.22 bits
3.9%
RANCE 4.85 bits
3.2%
SPAER 5.30 bits
2.2%
CRANE 4.77 bits
2.0%
SURLY 3.22 bits

Research on PIYUT

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

Optimal play

Opening with PIYUT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #6,559 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.87 guesses at best and is rank #3,382 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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 PYUHT. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.