5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

PONDS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of pond

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 PONDS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PONDS 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 75.4% of games, misses completely in 24.6%, and leaves about 220 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,106 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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__D_ P in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

CARLE SLATE RAILE TALER ARIEL CARTE
Words starting with P Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.46 Entropy (bits)
220 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 49% of evaluated openers
1.49 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PONDS 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.65 Volatility
#2,106 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PONDS ranks #2,106 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
947
4 guesses
1,211
5 guesses
134
6 guesses
11
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
1 vowels
Common:
NOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
26%
All gray
25%

Feedback distribution

86 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

580
262
157
142
138
125
70
69
61
60
57
56
49
36
34
32
32
25
22
22
19
16
16
15
15
15
14
13
11
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PONDS:

25% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
11% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
7% chance
Suggested:
RAILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.6% →
CARLE 6.32 bits
11.1% →
SLATE 5.71 bits
6.7% →
RAILE 5.39 bits
6.0% →
TALER 5.22 bits
5.9% →
ARIEL 5.57 bits
5.3% →
CARTE 4.75 bits
3.0% →
ARIEL 5.09 bits
2.9% →
NAICE 4.39 bits
2.6% →
CARET 4.88 bits
2.5% →
LEANT 4.46 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1N1D2S1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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