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

POKIE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpəʊki/

Noun

Synonym of poker machine, an electronic game of chance played for money, especially slot machines.

Noun

Any of several species of arboreal tarantula in the genus Poecilotheria.

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 POKIE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts POKIE 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 86.9% of games, misses completely in 13.1%, and leaves about 154 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,394 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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.
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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__I_ P in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in POKIE.

First-turn measures

All four describe POKIE 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.

4.72 Entropy (bits)
154 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 66% of evaluated openers
1.23 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How POKIE 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#6,394 Rank among openers
Opening with POKIE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,394 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
57
3 guesses
858
4 guesses
1,207
5 guesses
215
6 guesses
16
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EIO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
39%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

POKIE can come back 89 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

327 answers
312 answers
182 answers
176 answers
174 answers
152 answers
82 answers
82 answers
78 answers
67 answers
53 answers
47 answers
47 answers
41 answers
38 answers
33 answers
32 answers
29 answers
27 answers
24 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
13 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1K5I1E1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

ALTER SLART SLATY ARSON SALTY SLANT

Strategy after playing POKIE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POKIE:

14% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
13% chance
Suggested:
SLART
8% chance
Suggested:
SLATY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.8% →
ALTER 5.43 bits
13.1% →
SLART 5.87 bits
7.7% →
SLATY 5.08 bits
7.4% →
ARSON 5.22 bits
7.3% →
SLART 5.19 bits
6.4% →
SALTY 4.37 bits
3.5% →
SLANT 4.25 bits
3.5% →
SLANT 4.79 bits
3.3% →
DINER 4.84 bits
2.8% →
SLANT 4.90 bits

Research on POKIE

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

Optimal play

Opening with POKIE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,330 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.87 guesses at best and is rank #3,435 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it POHKEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
POKIE sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).