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

PREMY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative spelling of preemie.

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

Use PREMY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.9% 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 PREMY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PREMY 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 81.3% of games, misses completely in 18.7%, and leaves about 192 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,774 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.68 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 PREMY 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.

4.60 Entropy (bits)
192 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PREMY 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
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#5,774 Rank among openers
Opening with PREMY left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.71 means those games clustered within about 0.71 of a guess of the 3.68 average. It ranks #5,774 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
883
4 guesses
1,165
5 guesses
225
6 guesses
17

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
37%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

PREMY can come back 100 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

445 answers
355 answers
208 answers
159 answers
148 answers
113 answers
78 answers
70 answers
54 answers
48 answers
47 answers
41 answers
36 answers
36 answers
33 answers
30 answers
27 answers
26 answers
24 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3R1E1M3Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Strategy after playing PREMY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PREMY:

19% chance
Suggested:
SAINT
15% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
9% chance
Suggested:
SONAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.7% →
SAINT 6.20 bits
14.9% →
SLANE 5.29 bits
8.7% →
SONAR 4.51 bits
6.7% →
SLANT 4.66 bits
6.2% →
COAST 5.40 bits
4.7% →
SAINT 4.77 bits
3.3% →
SHALT 5.14 bits
2.9% →
MANIC 4.84 bits
2.3% →
COATE 4.12 bits
2.0% →
MOILE 4.59 bits

Research on PREMY

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

Optimal play

Opening with PREMY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.71 guesses and ranks #5,808 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.86 guesses at best and is rank #3,110 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.68, 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.

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