5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

PLIER

PLIER is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 95.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

One who plies.

Noun

Attributive form of pliers.

“a 3-piece plier kit”

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

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 PLIER performs as a guess

PLIER 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 87.9% of games, misses completely in 12.1%, and leaves about 106 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #577 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.59 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___R P in the 1st position and R in the 5th position P__E_ P in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _L__R L in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

Try next

SAUNT TEASE COAST COATE SATIN SALLY
Words starting with P Words ending with R

First-turn measures

5.36 Entropy (bits)
106 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 96% of evaluated openers
0.59 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PLIER 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.

3.59 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#577 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PLIER ranks #577 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
81
3 guesses
1,014
4 guesses
1,068
5 guesses
167
6 guesses
20
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:
EILR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
37%
All gray
12%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E D
F L I E R
P L I E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PLIER in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

129 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

285
197
196
144
119
111
88
80
66
61
58
43
41
38
37
36
36
32
29
28
26
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15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PLIER:

12% chance
Suggested:
SAUNT
8% chance
Suggested:
TEASE
8% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.1% →
SAUNT 5.85 bits
8.4% →
TEASE 5.46 bits
8.3% →
COAST 5.61 bits
6.1% →
COATE 4.79 bits
5.0% →
SATIN 4.97 bits
4.7% →
SALLY 5.03 bits
3.7% →
SALLE 4.71 bits
3.4% →
ROAST 3.52 bits
2.8% →
COAST 4.40 bits
2.6% →
SAUNT 4.74 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3L1I1E1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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