5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

POYNT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Obsolete form of point.

Verb

Obsolete form of point.

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 POYNT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts POYNT 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 77.0% of games, misses completely in 23.0%, and leaves about 192 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,055 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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___T P in the 1st position and T in the 5th position P__N_ P in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _O__T O in the 2nd position and T in the 5th position

Try next

RAISE CARLE RAILE SERAL MARLE ARIEL
Words starting with P Words ending with T

First-turn measures

4.68 Entropy (bits)
192 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 64% of evaluated openers
1.27 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How POYNT 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
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#3,055 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, POYNT ranks #3,055 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
56
3 guesses
956
4 guesses
1,139
5 guesses
190
6 guesses
13
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
1 vowels
Common:
NOT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
77%
Green tile
33%
All gray
23%

Feedback distribution

94 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

543
180
159
155
146
124
96
82
57
57
51
45
45
42
30
29
29
29
28
24
22
21
19
19
16
16
15
15
14
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POYNT:

23% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
8% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
7% chance
Suggested:
RAISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

23.0% →
RAISE 6.17 bits
7.6% →
RAISE 5.42 bits
6.7% →
RAISE 5.44 bits
6.6% →
CARLE 5.24 bits
6.2% →
RAILE 4.96 bits
5.3% →
SERAL 5.32 bits
4.1% →
MARLE 4.81 bits
3.5% →
ARIEL 5.43 bits
2.4% →
SLAKE 4.41 bits
2.4% →
ARIEL 4.36 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1Y4N1T1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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