5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

POETE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Obsolete spelling of poet.

Alternative forms: poëte

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 POETE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts POETE 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 80.9% of games, misses completely in 19.1%, and leaves about 161 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #7,455 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.71 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__T_ P in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SNAIL LINER SAINT ARSON GLARE CLARY
Words starting with P Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.81 Entropy (bits)
161 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 72% of evaluated openers
1.13 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How POETE 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.

3.71 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#7,455 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, POETE ranks #7,455 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
832
4 guesses
1,223
5 guesses
227
6 guesses
17
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
43%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

94 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

450
200
176
173
158
122
74
65
59
49
46
43
42
41
41
40
32
32
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17

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POETE:

19% chance
Suggested:
SNAIL
8% chance
Suggested:
LINER
7% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.1% →
SNAIL 5.88 bits
8.5% →
LINER 5.24 bits
7.5% →
SAINT 5.40 bits
7.3% →
ARSON 5.28 bits
6.7% →
GLARE 4.56 bits
5.2% →
CLARY 4.55 bits
3.1% →
ARIEL 4.30 bits
2.8% →
LAIRY 4.90 bits
2.5% →
SLART 4.23 bits
2.1% →
SERAL 4.04 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1E1T1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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