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

POWRE

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Obsolete form of power.

Verb

Obsolete form of pour.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Use POWRE in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.4% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How POWRE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts POWRE 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 81.9% of games, misses completely in 18.1%, and leaves about 158 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,247 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe POWRE 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.

4.87 Entropy (bits)
158 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How POWRE 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#4,247 Rank among openers
Opening with POWRE left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,247 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
935
4 guesses
1,138
5 guesses
211
6 guesses
14

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
38%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

POWRE can come back 102 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

431 answers
217 answers
185 answers
175 answers
147 answers
121 answers
120 answers
73 answers
62 answers
56 answers
43 answers
43 answers
38 answers
35 answers
33 answers
30 answers
26 answers
25 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1W4R1E1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing POWRE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POWRE:

18% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
9% chance
Suggested:
LEANT
8% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.1% →
SAINT 6.10 bits
9.1% →
LEANT 5.38 bits
7.8% →
SAULT 5.38 bits
7.3% →
STAIR 4.32 bits
6.2% →
SAINT 5.20 bits
5.1% →
SLANT 5.21 bits
5.0% →
SLANT 4.45 bits
3.1% →
ACTOR 3.99 bits
2.6% →
REACT 3.81 bits
2.3% →
SLATY 4.89 bits

Research on POWRE

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

Optimal play

Opening with POWRE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,284 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with POWRE can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).