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

PREIF

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

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.9% of possible answers.

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 PREIF performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PREIF 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 82.6% of games, misses completely in 17.4%, and leaves about 169 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,311 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 PREIF 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.

4.76 Entropy (bits)
169 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 69% of evaluated openers
1.18 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PREIF 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
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#4,311 Rank among openers
Opening with PREIF solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,311 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
928
4 guesses
1,157
5 guesses
202
6 guesses
14
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
2 vowels
Common:
EIR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
29%
All gray
17%

Feedback distribution

PREIF can come back 93 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

414 answers
311 answers
189 answers
161 answers
160 answers
96 answers
79 answers
77 answers
72 answers
54 answers
42 answers
40 answers
37 answers
35 answers
31 answers
30 answers
26 answers
26 answers
24 answers
23 answers
21 answers
19 answers
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18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
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15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3R1E1I1F4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing PREIF

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PREIF:

17% chance
Suggested:
SAULT
13% chance
Suggested:
LEASE
8% chance
Suggested:
SETAE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.4%
SAULT 5.92 bits
13.1%
LEASE 5.39 bits
8.0%
SETAE 4.76 bits
6.8%
SLANT 5.17 bits
6.7%
COAST 5.31 bits
4.0%
CLINE 4.22 bits
3.3%
SLANT 4.39 bits
3.2%
SLANT 5.13 bits
3.0%
COAST 4.97 bits
2.3%
SLANT 4.70 bits

Research on PREIF

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

Optimal play

Opening with PREIF, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,426 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.83 guesses at best and is rank #2,234 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.71, 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 PREEF. 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.