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PLACE

Yes, PLACE was the Wordle answer on February 8, 2024 (Wordle #964).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpleɪ̯s/[ˈpʰl̥eɪ̯s]/ˈpleːs/

Noun

An area; somewhere within an area.

Noun

A location or position in space.

“I'll check places I think she might be.”

Verb

To put (someone or something) in a specific location.

“He placed the glass on the table.”

Verb

To earn a given spot in a competition; to rank at a certain position ((often followed by an ordinal)).

“The Cowboys placed third in the league.”

Alternative forms: pleace

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: February 8, 2024 (#964).

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

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How PLACE performs as a guess

PLACE 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 85.6% of games, misses completely in 14.4%, and leaves about 115 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #516 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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___E P in the 1st position and E in the 5th position P__C_ P in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _L__E L in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SNORT DETER RAINY GRISE DILLY SETER
Words starting with P Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.37 Entropy (bits)
115 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 97% of evaluated openers
0.58 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PLACE 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#516 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PLACE ranks #516 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
86
3 guesses
974
4 guesses
1,136
5 guesses
141
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
2 vowels
Common:
AEL

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
40%
All gray
14%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
P L A C E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PLACE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

129 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

339
233
171
135
91
79
76
73
67
55
43
43
43
42
41
40
34
31
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27
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17

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PLACE:

14% chance
Suggested:
SNORT
10% chance
Suggested:
DETER
7% chance
Suggested:
RAINY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

14.4% →
SNORT 5.98 bits
9.9% →
DETER 5.42 bits
7.3% →
RAINY 4.97 bits
5.7% →
GRISE 4.46 bits
3.9% →
DILLY 4.70 bits
3.4% →
SETER 4.41 bits
3.2% →
STAND 4.34 bits
3.1% →
TALON 4.18 bits
2.8% →
LEVEL 3.96 bits
2.3% →
CRONY 4.73 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3L1A1C3E1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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