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Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

POWLT

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

No dictionary definition for POWLT is recorded in our sourced data.

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

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Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 POWLT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts POWLT 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 75.8% of games, misses completely in 24.2%, and leaves about 217 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,946 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

P___T P in the 1st position and T in the 5th position P__L_ P in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _O__T O in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe POWLT 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.

4.50 Entropy (bits)
217 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 52% of evaluated openers
1.45 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How POWLT 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#2,946 Rank among openers
Opening with POWLT solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.64 average. It ranks #2,946 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
956
4 guesses
1,153
5 guesses
186
6 guesses
8
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
LOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
33%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

POWLT can come back 87 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

574 answers
231 answers
206 answers
162 answers
117 answers
114 answers
86 answers
83 answers
57 answers
54 answers
51 answers
47 answers
36 answers
36 answers
34 answers
28 answers
28 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1W4L1T1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

RAISE RAINE CRANE SIREN RANCE SAINE

Strategy after playing POWLT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POWLT:

24% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
10% chance
Suggested:
RAINE
9% chance
Suggested:
RAISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.2% →
RAISE 6.20 bits
9.7% →
RAINE 5.35 bits
8.7% →
RAISE 5.60 bits
6.8% →
CRANE 5.59 bits
4.9% →
SIREN 5.18 bits
4.8% →
RANCE 4.78 bits
3.6% →
RAISE 4.76 bits
3.5% →
RAISE 5.37 bits
2.4% →
SAINE 4.83 bits
2.3% →
ARISE 5.12 bits

Research on POWLT

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

Optimal play

Opening with POWLT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,191 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.79 guesses at best and is rank #1,201 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.64, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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

One syllable Say it POWLT. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.