5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

POOFS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 82.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of poof

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 POOFS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts POOFS 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 62.3% of games, misses completely in 37.7%, and leaves about 421 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,075 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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__F_ P in the 1st position and F in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE STALE RANCE MANOR ARIEL BRANE
Words starting with P Words ending with S

First-turn measures

3.58 Entropy (bits)
421 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 9% of evaluated openers
2.37 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How POOFS 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#12,075 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, POOFS ranks #12,075 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
712
4 guesses
1,277
5 guesses
305
6 guesses
21
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:
OS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
62%
Green tile
29%
All gray
38%

Feedback distribution

64 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

889
333
163
132
109
89
88
87
73
49
33
22
22
17
17
16
15
15
14
13
11
11
10
9
9
8
8
8
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POOFS:

38% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
14% chance
Suggested:
STALE
7% chance
Suggested:
RANCE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

37.7% →
RAILE 6.19 bits
14.1% →
STALE 5.60 bits
6.9% →
RANCE 4.68 bits
5.6% →
MANOR 5.26 bits
4.6% →
ARIEL 5.42 bits
3.8% →
BRANE 4.85 bits
3.7% →
ALINE 5.18 bits
3.7% →
ARIEL 5.24 bits
3.1% →
CARET 4.75 bits
2.1% →
REACT 4.06 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1O1F4S1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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