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

PLOIT

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

No dictionary definition for PLOIT 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 PLOIT in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.2% 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 PLOIT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PLOIT 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 82.6% of games, misses completely in 17.4%, and leaves about 139 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #110 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.56 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 PLOIT 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.

5.08 Entropy (bits)
139 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.2% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PLOIT 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.

3.56 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#110 Rank among openers
Opening with PLOIT 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 3.56 average. It ranks #110 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
1,071
4 guesses
1,061
5 guesses
139
6 guesses
13

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ILOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
36%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

PLOIT can come back 115 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

414 answers
178 answers
174 answers
155 answers
147 answers
93 answers
81 answers
70 answers
65 answers
64 answers
61 answers
59 answers
52 answers
48 answers
41 answers
32 answers
31 answers
28 answers
27 answers
27 answers
26 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3L1O1I1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing PLOIT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PLOIT:

17% chance
Suggested:
SACRE
7% chance
Suggested:
MORNE
7% chance
Suggested:
RINSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.4% →
SACRE 6.11 bits
7.5% →
MORNE 5.25 bits
7.3% →
RINSE 5.40 bits
6.5% →
LABEL 5.16 bits
6.2% →
TARTE 5.69 bits
3.9% →
CRANE 4.98 bits
3.4% →
CEASE 4.93 bits
2.9% →
SCARE 4.54 bits
2.7% →
LOYAL 4.16 bits
2.7% →
TRITE 4.34 bits

Research on PLOIT

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

Optimal play

Opening with PLOIT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.62 guesses and ranks #439 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.73 guesses at best and is rank #170 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.56, at or below the proven-optimal 3.62, 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).