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POTTO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 80.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpɒtəʊ/

Noun

A small primate of the genus Perodicticus, native to the tropical rainforests of Africa.

Noun

The kinkajou.

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 POTTO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts POTTO 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 59.1% of games, misses completely in 40.9%, and leaves about 473 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,848 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

P___O P in the 1st position and O in the 5th position P__T_ P in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _O__O O in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe POTTO 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.

3.48 Entropy (bits)
473 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
80.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 7% of evaluated openers
2.47 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How POTTO 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#12,848 Rank among openers
Opening with POTTO left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.84 average. It ranks #12,848 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
689
4 guesses
1,250
5 guesses
338
6 guesses
29
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
OT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
59%
Green tile
27%
All gray
41%

Feedback distribution

POTTO can come back 68 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

972 answers
269 answers
202 answers
162 answers
121 answers
88 answers
70 answers
55 answers
54 answers
35 answers
34 answers
32 answers
24 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1T1T1O1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

RAILE RAISE CRANE CARLE LIANE SHARE

Strategy after playing POTTO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POTTO:

41% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
11% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
9% chance
Suggested:
CRANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

40.9% →
RAILE 6.22 bits
11.3% →
RAISE 5.54 bits
8.5% →
CRANE 5.42 bits
6.8% →
CARLE 4.77 bits
5.1% →
RAISE 5.46 bits
3.7% →
LIANE 5.15 bits
2.9% →
SHARE 4.93 bits
2.3% →
ARIEL 4.68 bits
2.3% →
SNORT 4.41 bits
1.5% →
SPARE 4.57 bits

Research on POTTO

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

Optimal play

Opening with POTTO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.88 guesses and ranks #13,429 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.02 guesses at best and is rank #6,421 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.84, at or below the proven-optimal 3.88, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it PAHTOH. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, POTTO is a kind of primate.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
POTTO sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).