5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

PONGO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 82.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A soldier.

Noun

A canyon or gorge in South America, especially one cutting through a ridge or mountain range.

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 PONGO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PONGO 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 60.6% of games, misses completely in 39.4%, and leaves about 425 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,956 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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___O P in the 1st position and O in the 5th position P__G_ P in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _O__O O in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

REAST RAISE CRATE TALER STALE GLARE
Words starting with P Words ending with O

First-turn measures

3.73 Entropy (bits)
425 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 12% of evaluated openers
2.22 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PONGO 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#9,956 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PONGO ranks #9,956 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
754
4 guesses
1,288
5 guesses
247
6 guesses
18
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
2 vowels
Common:
NO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
61%
Green tile
26%
All gray
39%

Feedback distribution

74 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

928
195
171
140
135
98
79
75
65
53
33
32
26
25
19
17
16
14
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
10
10
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PONGO:

39% chance
Suggested:
REAST
8% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
7% chance
Suggested:
CRATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

39.4% →
REAST 6.24 bits
8.3% →
RAISE 5.37 bits
7.3% →
CRATE 5.29 bits
5.9% →
TALER 4.71 bits
5.7% →
STALE 5.49 bits
4.2% →
GLARE 5.21 bits
3.4% →
CARLE 4.99 bits
3.2% →
CADIE 4.71 bits
2.8% →
SWARE 4.37 bits
2.2% →
SLIER 4.31 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1N1G2O1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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