5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

POOED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 89.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of poo

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 POOED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts POOED 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 76.0% of games, misses completely in 24.0%, and leaves about 251 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,621 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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___D P in the 1st position and D in the 5th position P__E_ P in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position PO_ED P in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and D in the 5th position

Try next

SAINT SLART STAIR BARON SLANT GEARE
Words starting with P Words ending with D

First-turn measures

4.29 Entropy (bits)
251 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 38% of evaluated openers
1.66 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How POOED 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#8,621 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, POOED ranks #8,621 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
822
4 guesses
1,203
5 guesses
262
6 guesses
16
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
EO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
40%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

81 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

567
423
169
111
94
93
80
79
69
50
43
43
42
36
35
29
26
22
21
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17
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POOED:

24% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
18% chance
Suggested:
SLART
7% chance
Suggested:
STAIR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.0% →
SAINT 6.13 bits
17.9% →
SLART 5.82 bits
7.2% →
STAIR 4.68 bits
4.7% →
SLART 4.57 bits
4.0% →
BARON 5.21 bits
3.9% →
SLANT 4.97 bits
3.4% →
GEARE 4.59 bits
3.4% →
SLART 5.29 bits
2.9% →
DAILY 4.65 bits
2.1% →
SAUNT 4.44 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1O1E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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