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Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

POSER

POSER is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 95.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpəʊzə(ɹ)//ˈpoʊzɚ/

Noun

A particularly difficult question or puzzle.

Noun

Someone who asks a question or sets a problem.

“Even as a child, she was a habitual poser of difficult questions.”

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

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 POSER performs as a guess

POSER is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,359 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 87.3% of games, misses completely in 12.7%, and leaves about 115 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,192 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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___R P in the 1st position and R in the 5th position P__E_ P in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__R O in the 2nd position and R in the 5th position

Try next

TUNIC DEALT TRIAD SLANT CRARE MOLDY
Words starting with P Words ending with R

First-turn measures

5.26 Entropy (bits)
115 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.1% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How POSER 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#2,192 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, POSER ranks #2,192 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
81
3 guesses
937
4 guesses
1,138
5 guesses
179
6 guesses
18

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EORS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
33%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S M O C K
L O S E R
P O S E R

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches POSER in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

122 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

300
254
146
135
129
106
93
86
79
65
63
46
44
35
35
34
32
30
27
25
25
25
24
21
20
20
20
17
15
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POSER:

13% chance
Suggested:
TUNIC
11% chance
Suggested:
DEALT
6% chance
Suggested:
TRIAD

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

12.7% →
TUNIC 5.63 bits
10.8% →
DEALT 5.54 bits
6.2% →
TRIAD 5.20 bits
5.7% →
SLANT 5.24 bits
5.5% →
CRARE 4.59 bits
4.5% →
MOLDY 4.00 bits
3.9% →
TALON 4.99 bits
3.6% →
SLANT 4.89 bits
3.3% →
LEANT 3.47 bits
2.8% →
ACORN 4.28 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1S1E1R1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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