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PORTE

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

The Ottoman court; (hence), the government of the Ottoman empire.

Alternative forms: Ottoman Porte, Sublime Porte

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 PORTE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PORTE 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 86.9% of games, misses completely in 13.1%, and leaves about 100 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #492 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

P___E P in the 1st position and E in the 5th position P__T_ P in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in PORTE.

First-turn measures

All four describe PORTE 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.

5.46 Entropy (bits)
100 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 98% of evaluated openers
0.49 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PORTE 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#492 Rank among openers
Opening with PORTE 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 3.58 average. It ranks #492 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
92
3 guesses
993
4 guesses
1,088
5 guesses
163
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EORT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
40%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

PORTE can come back 126 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

310 answers
148 answers
145 answers
143 answers
120 answers
108 answers
92 answers
87 answers
83 answers
74 answers
50 answers
46 answers
46 answers
45 answers
37 answers
36 answers
35 answers
32 answers
32 answers
31 answers
25 answers
25 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1R1T1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SLAIN SADLY LADEN AIDER TAINT DRAIN

Strategy after playing PORTE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PORTE:

13% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
6% chance
Suggested:
SADLY
6% chance
Suggested:
LADEN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.1% →
SLAIN 5.92 bits
6.2% →
SADLY 4.66 bits
6.1% →
LADEN 5.18 bits
6.0% →
AIDER 4.28 bits
5.1% →
TAINT 5.27 bits
4.5% →
DRAIN 5.04 bits
3.9% →
SALON 5.12 bits
3.7% →
SADLY 4.33 bits
3.5% →
SLEET 4.74 bits
3.1% →
ARSON 4.27 bits

Research on PORTE

Game-tree analysis and word research for PORTE, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with PORTE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.58 guesses and ranks #52 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.72 guesses at best and is rank #74 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, at or below the proven-optimal 3.58, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it PAWRT.

Rhymes with COURT SHORT SPORT ABORT QUART

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PORTE is a kind of court.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PORTE sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).