5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

PORNO

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpɔːnəʊ/

Adjective

Pornographic.

“That's a porno film.”

Noun

Pornography.

Noun

A pornographic film.

“They watched a few pornos.”

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

Clipping of pornographic or pornography. Attested from mid-20th century.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use PORNO in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 89.1% of possible answers.

Open Solver with PORNO Open Word Finder

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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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__N_ P in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _O__O O in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

First-turn measures

All four describe PORNO used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.29 Entropy (bits)
260 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PORNO 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#6,456 Rank among openers
Opening with PORNO left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,456 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
880
4 guesses
1,170
5 guesses
232
6 guesses
17

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
NOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
73%
Green tile
31%
All gray
27%

Feedback distribution

PORNO can come back 87 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

635 answers
340 answers
179 answers
102 answers
102 answers
94 answers
93 answers
91 answers
80 answers
56 answers
48 answers
45 answers
42 answers
38 answers
32 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
22 answers
18 answers
18 answers
15 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
9 answers
9 answers
9 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1R1N1O1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SLATE TEASE AINEE THALE SAULT CASTE

Strategy after playing PORNO

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to PORNO.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PORNO:

27% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
14% chance
Suggested:
TEASE
8% chance
Suggested:
AINEE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.6% →
SLATE 6.41 bits
14.3% →
TEASE 5.32 bits
7.5% →
AINEE 5.13 bits
4.3% →
SLATE 5.24 bits
4.3% →
THALE 4.66 bits
3.9% →
SLATE 5.45 bits
3.9% →
SAULT 4.80 bits
3.8% →
CASTE 5.08 bits
3.4% →
TRACE 4.32 bits
2.3% →
SLATE 4.94 bits