5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

POTED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 94.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of pote

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 POTED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts POTED 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 84.4% of games, misses completely in 15.6%, and leaves about 141 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,366 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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___D P in the 1st position and D in the 5th position P__E_ P in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _O__D O in the 2nd position and D in the 5th position PO_ED P in the 1st position, O in the 2nd position, E in the 4th position, and D in the 5th position

Try next

SLAIN LEARE SAINT ARSON SHART LASER
Words starting with P Words ending with D

First-turn measures

5.00 Entropy (bits)
141 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 83% of evaluated openers
0.95 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How POTED 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.68 Volatility
#2,366 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, POTED ranks #2,366 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
934
4 guesses
1,162
5 guesses
178
6 guesses
9
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

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
34%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

105 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

368
280
167
143
124
119
86
68
60
55
55
51
45
37
36
35
32
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25
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16

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POTED:

16% chance
Suggested:
SLAIN
12% chance
Suggested:
LEARE
7% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.6% →
SLAIN 5.90 bits
11.9% →
LEARE 5.40 bits
7.1% →
SAINT 5.59 bits
6.1% →
ARSON 5.27 bits
5.3% →
SHART 5.12 bits
5.0% →
LASER 4.37 bits
3.6% →
CLARY 4.68 bits
2.9% →
GEARE 4.65 bits
2.5% →
SHALY 4.86 bits
2.3% →
SLANE 4.24 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1T1E1D2
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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