5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

POMES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of pome

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 POMES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts POMES 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 83.3% of games, misses completely in 16.7%, and leaves about 170 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #5,783 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___S P in the 1st position and S in the 5th position P__E_ P in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position PO_ES P in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL LEARE SAULT ACORN AIDER CLARY
Words starting with P Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.75 Entropy (bits)
170 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How POMES 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#5,783 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, POMES ranks #5,783 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
892
4 guesses
1,190
5 guesses
206
6 guesses
17

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
31%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

96 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

395
343
177
156
150
117
109
56
47
46
45
39
39
35
32
29
25
25
23
23
21
20
19
19
17
17
17
15
13
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POMES:

17% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
15% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
8% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.7% →
TRAIL 5.98 bits
14.5% →
LEARE 5.48 bits
7.5% →
SAULT 5.38 bits
6.6% →
ACORN 5.14 bits
6.4% →
AIDER 4.27 bits
5.0% →
CLARY 4.45 bits
4.6% →
SLART 4.94 bits
2.4% →
DROLE 4.14 bits
2.0% →
SHART 4.23 bits
1.9% →
RAINY 4.40 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1M3E1S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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