5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

POSES

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of pose

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of pose

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 POSES performs as a guess

Wordle accepts POSES 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 80.6% of games, misses completely in 19.4%, and leaves about 214 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,998 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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__E_ P in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__S O in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position PO_ES P in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and S in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL LEARE ADORN LATER SLANT CLARY
Words starting with P Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.33 Entropy (bits)
214 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 41% of evaluated openers
1.62 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How POSES 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#10,998 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, POSES ranks #10,998 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
744
4 guesses
1,250
5 guesses
285
6 guesses
24
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:
EOS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
32%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

80 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

458
393
183
169
158
147
106
66
46
45
43
43
36
31
30
25
24
24
23
21
18
18
15
14
14
13
12
11
10
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POSES:

19% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
17% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
8% chance
Suggested:
ADORN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.4% →
TRAIL 5.93 bits
16.7% →
LEARE 5.48 bits
7.8% →
ADORN 5.11 bits
7.2% →
LATER 4.43 bits
6.7% →
SLANT 5.19 bits
6.2% →
CLARY 4.50 bits
4.5% →
SLART 4.94 bits
2.8% →
BRANE 4.24 bits
2.0% →
MOWER 3.09 bits
1.9% →
LAIRY 4.76 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1S1E1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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