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

PRIAN

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of pryan.

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

Use PRIAN in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.8% 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 PRIAN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PRIAN 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 86.7% of games, misses completely in 13.3%, and leaves about 124 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #531 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.58 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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First-turn measures

All four describe PRIAN 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.

5.19 Entropy (bits)
124 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PRIAN 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.

3.58 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#531 Rank among openers
Opening with PRIAN left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.58 average. It ranks #531 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
1,045
4 guesses
1,054
5 guesses
177
6 guesses
11

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AINR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
34%
All gray
13%

Feedback distribution

PRIAN can come back 116 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

318 answers
264 answers
201 answers
120 answers
115 answers
107 answers
83 answers
77 answers
65 answers
58 answers
57 answers
53 answers
49 answers
47 answers
45 answers
36 answers
32 answers
31 answers
29 answers
28 answers
26 answers
26 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3R1I1A1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing PRIAN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PRIAN:

13% chance
Suggested:
STOLE
11% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
SORER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.3% →
STOLE 5.97 bits
11.1% →
SLATE 5.69 bits
8.4% →
SORER 5.27 bits
5.0% →
THALE 4.48 bits
4.8% →
TILDE 4.95 bits
4.5% →
CONTE 5.02 bits
3.5% →
SHULE 4.90 bits
3.2% →
LEANT 4.23 bits
2.7% →
CLOTE 4.63 bits
2.4% →
CLOTE 4.51 bits

Research on PRIAN

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

Optimal play

Opening with PRIAN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.63 guesses and ranks #913 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.76 guesses at best and is rank #434 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, 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.

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