5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

POYOU

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

As an opener, it rules out about 82.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

The six-banded armadillo, Euphractus sexcinctus.

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 POYOU performs as a guess

Wordle accepts POYOU 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 62.7% of games, misses completely in 37.3%, and leaves about 407 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,042 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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___U P in the 1st position and U in the 5th position P__O_ P in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _O__U O in the 2nd position and U in the 5th position

Try next

TIARE SLANE TALER SNARE RANCE SPAER
Words starting with P Words ending with U

First-turn measures

3.61 Entropy (bits)
407 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
82.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 9% of evaluated openers
2.34 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How POYOU 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#14,042 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, POYOU ranks #14,042 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
628
4 guesses
1,260
5 guesses
398
6 guesses
34
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

4/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
OU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
63%
Green tile
24%
All gray
37%

Feedback distribution

57 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

880
256
191
190
122
104
65
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56
46
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30
26
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POYOU:

37% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
11% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
8% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

37.3% →
TIARE 6.14 bits
10.9% →
SLANE 5.26 bits
8.1% →
TALER 4.98 bits
8.1% →
SNARE 5.20 bits
5.2% →
RANCE 4.65 bits
4.4% →
SPAER 5.30 bits
2.8% →
TALER 4.65 bits
2.5% →
CLINE 5.06 bits
2.4% →
SLART 3.46 bits
2.0% →
DROLE 3.27 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1Y4O1U1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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