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

PRETA

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

As an opener, it rules out about 95.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpɹeɪtə/

Noun

A hungry ghost (a supernatural being in Buddhist folklore, the spirit of a greedy person whose divine retribution is never to be sated)

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 PRETA performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PRETA 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 88.3% of games, misses completely in 11.7%, and leaves about 103 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #855 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 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.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

P___A P in the 1st position and A in the 5th position P__T_ P in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _R__A R in the 2nd position and A in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PRETA 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.

5.38 Entropy (bits)
103 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
95.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 97% of evaluated openers
0.56 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PRETA 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.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.71 Spread of game lengths
#855 Rank among openers
Opening with PRETA 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 3.60 average. It ranks #855 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
83
3 guesses
993
4 guesses
1,082
5 guesses
181
6 guesses
13
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:
AERT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
88%
Green tile
29%
All gray
12%

Feedback distribution

PRETA can come back 126 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

277 answers
198 answers
185 answers
143 answers
125 answers
100 answers
85 answers
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60 answers
59 answers
49 answers
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27 answers
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Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3R1E1T1A1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

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

Try next

SOILY MOILE SONLY SEINE SABLE HOIST

Strategy after playing PRETA

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PRETA:

12% chance
Suggested:
SOILY
8% chance
Suggested:
MOILE
8% chance
Suggested:
SONLY

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

11.7% →
SOILY 5.73 bits
8.3% →
MOILE 5.22 bits
7.8% →
SONLY 5.19 bits
6.0% →
SEINE 4.50 bits
5.3% →
SABLE 4.60 bits
4.2% →
HOIST 5.08 bits
3.6% →
TALON 4.30 bits
3.4% →
SORRY 4.72 bits
3.4% →
COALY 4.25 bits
2.5% →
TOILE 4.45 bits

Research on PRETA

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

Optimal play

Opening with PRETA, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #957 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 PRETA can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.60, at or below the proven-optimal 3.63, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it PREETUH. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PRETA 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).