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PRIMO

Yes, PRIMO was the Wordle answer on June 15, 2022 (Wordle #361).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpɹiː.moʊ/

Noun

The principal part of a duet.

Noun

Any high-quality drug.

Adjective

Best; first-class.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: June 15, 2022 (#361).

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The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How PRIMO performs as a guess

PRIMO is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 79.2% of games, misses completely in 20.8%, and leaves about 187 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,404 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

P___O P in the 1st position and O in the 5th position P__M_ P in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _R__O R in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PRIMO 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.

4.65 Entropy (bits)
187 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 62% of evaluated openers
1.30 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PRIMO 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,404 Rank among openers
Opening with PRIMO 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 3.63 average. It ranks #2,404 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
954
4 guesses
1,144
5 guesses
179
6 guesses
12
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:
IOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
29%
All gray
21%

Example solver route

R O A T E
G R I N D
P R I M O

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PRIMO in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

PRIMO can come back 97 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

493 answers
246 answers
213 answers
163 answers
130 answers
127 answers
99 answers
69 answers
57 answers
51 answers
47 answers
47 answers
41 answers
40 answers
33 answers
30 answers
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23 answers
21 answers
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17 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3R1I1M3O1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

SLATE SETAE LEANT SLANE TARRE CADET

Strategy after playing PRIMO

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PRIMO:

21% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
10% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
SETAE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.8% →
SLATE 6.40 bits
10.4% →
SLATE 5.24 bits
9.0% →
SETAE 5.39 bits
6.9% →
LEANT 5.13 bits
5.5% →
SLANE 5.09 bits
5.3% →
TARRE 4.61 bits
4.2% →
CADET 4.96 bits
2.9% →
SIDLE 4.41 bits
2.4% →
SLATE 4.89 bits
2.1% →
SALET 5.11 bits

Research on PRIMO

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

Optimal play

Opening with PRIMO, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #3,826 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.80 guesses at best and is rank #1,412 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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 PREEMOH.

Rhymes with CHEMO

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PRIMO is a kind of part.

Synonyms best

Opposites WORST

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PRIMO sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).