5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

POWAN

POWAN 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

Coregonus clupeoides, a species of freshwater whitefish endemic to Loch Lomond in Scotland.

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 POWAN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts POWAN 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 79.0% of games, misses completely in 21.0%, and leaves about 215 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,668 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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___N P in the 1st position and N in the 5th position P__A_ P in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _O__N O in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SLIER TARSE TUILE STORE CRUET TALER
Words starting with P Words ending with N

First-turn measures

4.43 Entropy (bits)
215 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 47% of evaluated openers
1.51 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How POWAN 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#6,668 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, POWAN ranks #6,668 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
868
4 guesses
1,196
5 guesses
230
6 guesses
11
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:
ANO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
28%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

85 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

496
386
156
156
138
95
84
81
60
49
47
44
40
38
35
29
28
25
25
21
16
15
14
14
13
13
13
13
12
12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POWAN:

21% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
16% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
7% chance
Suggested:
TUILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.0% →
SLIER 6.00 bits
16.4% →
TARSE 5.52 bits
6.6% →
TUILE 5.19 bits
6.6% →
STORE 5.08 bits
5.9% →
CRUET 4.67 bits
4.0% →
TARSE 4.25 bits
3.6% →
TALER 4.72 bits
3.4% →
SLIER 5.43 bits
2.5% →
LABOR 4.35 bits
2.1% →
TARSE 4.68 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1W4A1N1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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