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POSSE

Yes, POSSE was the Wordle answer on January 4, 2026 (Wordle #1660).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpɒs.i//ˈpɑs.i/

Noun

A group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile intent; a throng, a crowd.

Noun

A search party.

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

Used once

Past Wordle answer: January 4, 2026 (#1660).

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

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How POSSE performs as a guess

POSSE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 80.6% of games, misses completely in 19.4%, and leaves about 203 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,745 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.

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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__S_ P in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _O__E O in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL ALTER LAIRY ADORN CLARY SLANT
Words starting with P Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.48 Entropy (bits)
203 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 50% of evaluated openers
1.47 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How POSSE 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
0.73 Volatility
#10,745 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, POSSE ranks #10,745 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
746
4 guesses
1,235
5 guesses
290
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
39%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L U M P
P O I S E
P O S S E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches POSSE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

88 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

458
367
195
183
147
130
53
47
46
45
43
42
41
38
34
31
30
27
23
23
20
19
18
18
15
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14
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POSSE:

19% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
16% chance
Suggested:
ALTER
8% chance
Suggested:
LAIRY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.4% →
TRAIL 5.93 bits
15.6% →
ALTER 5.38 bits
8.3% →
LAIRY 4.52 bits
7.8% →
ADORN 5.11 bits
6.2% →
CLARY 4.50 bits
5.5% →
SLANT 4.89 bits
2.2% →
STEER 4.34 bits
2.0% →
LEANT 3.64 bits
2.0% →
MOWER 3.09 bits
1.9% →
LAIRY 4.76 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1S1S1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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