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PREEN

Yes, PREEN was the Wordle answer on June 2, 2025 (Wordle #1444).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /pɹiːn/

Noun

A forked tool used by clothiers for dressing cloth.

Verb

To pin; fasten.

Verb

To groom; to trim or dress the feathers with the beak.

Noun

A pin.

Alternative forms: prin

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: June 2, 2025 (#1444).

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How PREEN performs as a guess

PREEN is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 79.0% of games, misses completely in 21.0%, and leaves about 185 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,608 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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___N P in the 1st position and N in the 5th position P__E_ P in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _R__N R in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PREEN 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.

4.78 Entropy (bits)
185 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 70% of evaluated openers
1.17 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PREEN 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.

3.68 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#5,608 Rank among openers
Opening with PREEN left 2 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 3.68 average. It ranks #5,608 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
59
3 guesses
880
4 guesses
1,183
5 guesses
211
6 guesses
18
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
36%
All gray
21%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E D
P E N C E
P R E E N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PREEN in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

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

499 answers
243 answers
200 answers
197 answers
94 answers
93 answers
91 answers
71 answers
65 answers
44 answers
44 answers
39 answers
38 answers
36 answers
29 answers
27 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
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21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3R1E1E1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SAULT SLATE COAST GIANT REARM ROAST

Strategy after playing PREEN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PREEN:

21% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
10% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
COAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.0% →
SAULT 5.92 bits
10.2% →
SLATE 5.54 bits
8.4% →
COAST 5.32 bits
8.3% →
GIANT 5.19 bits
4.0% →
REARM 4.42 bits
3.9% →
COAST 4.79 bits
3.8% →
ROAST 3.58 bits
3.0% →
SLATY 4.84 bits
2.7% →
ANISE 4.45 bits
1.9% →
VALET 4.13 bits

Research on PREEN

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

Optimal play

Opening with PREEN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,051 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 PREEN can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, 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 PREEN.

Rhymes with GREEN CLEAN SCENE QUEEN SHEEN

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PREEN is a kind of clean or triumph.

Synonyms DRESS congratulate PLUME

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PREEN sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.5 of 5).

In a sentence

A duck will preen its feathers many times over the course of the day.
© tatoeba.org contributor AlanF_US (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).