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

PLANH

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

No dictionary definition for PLANH is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use PLANH in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.0% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How PLANH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PLANH 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 80.3% of games, misses completely in 19.7%, and leaves about 166 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,659 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe PLANH 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.

4.84 Entropy (bits)
166 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PLANH 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#1,659 Rank among openers
Opening with PLANH solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It ranks #1,659 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
987
4 guesses
1,125
5 guesses
172
6 guesses
11

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ALN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
34%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

PLANH can come back 104 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

469 answers
230 answers
165 answers
161 answers
110 answers
103 answers
99 answers
80 answers
74 answers
73 answers
65 answers
52 answers
51 answers
29 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
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17 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3L1A1N1H4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing PLANH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PLANH:

20% chance
Suggested:
SORED
10% chance
Suggested:
TAMER
7% chance
Suggested:
ROULE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.7% →
SORED 5.99 bits
9.6% →
TAMER 5.39 bits
6.9% →
ROULE 4.95 bits
6.8% →
SIDER 5.34 bits
4.6% →
TALER 4.58 bits
4.3% →
STIRE 5.07 bits
4.2% →
STIRE 5.70 bits
3.4% →
STIRE 5.35 bits
3.1% →
OATER 4.60 bits
3.1% →
RUOTE 4.70 bits

Research on PLANH

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

Optimal play

Opening with PLANH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,092 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.76 guesses at best and is rank #502 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).