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

PRESE

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

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.5% 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 PRESE performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PRESE 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 78.9% of games, misses completely in 21.1%, and leaves about 178 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #5,143 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.67 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 PRESE 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.

4.84 Entropy (bits)
178 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 74% of evaluated openers
1.10 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PRESE 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.

3.67 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#5,143 Rank among openers
Opening with PRESE left 1 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 3.67 average. It ranks #5,143 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
69
3 guesses
887
4 guesses
1,159
5 guesses
222
6 guesses
16
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:
ERS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
40%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

PRESE can come back 109 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

502 answers
180 answers
173 answers
173 answers
149 answers
139 answers
110 answers
57 answers
50 answers
49 answers
47 answers
42 answers
40 answers
35 answers
32 answers
29 answers
28 answers
23 answers
22 answers
20 answers
20 answers
20 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3R1E1S1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Strategy after playing PRESE

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PRESE:

21% chance
Suggested:
TONAL
8% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
7% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

21.1%
TONAL 5.88 bits
7.6%
CAROL 5.23 bits
7.3%
SAINT 5.21 bits
7.3%
LADEN 5.16 bits
6.3%
LEANT 4.23 bits
5.9%
ANILE 4.69 bits
4.6%
TRAIN 4.44 bits
2.4%
SHALT 4.44 bits
2.1%
SLANT 4.20 bits
2.1%
SAUNT 4.22 bits

Research on PRESE

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

Optimal play

Opening with PRESE, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,632 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.84 guesses at best and is rank #2,632 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.67, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, 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 PREEZ. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PRESE sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).