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

PRODD

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.4% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A kind of crossbow used to shoot pebbles or pellets

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 PRODD performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PRODD 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 68.4% of games, misses completely in 31.6%, and leaves about 322 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #8,316 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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 PRODD 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.

3.99 Entropy (bits)
322 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 22% of evaluated openers
1.95 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PRODD 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#8,316 Rank among openers
Opening with PRODD left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.73 average. It ranks #8,316 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
818
4 guesses
1,246
5 guesses
235
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
OR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
30%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

PRODD can come back 74 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

751 answers
298 answers
199 answers
121 answers
121 answers
109 answers
95 answers
77 answers
67 answers
40 answers
37 answers
35 answers
30 answers
29 answers
28 answers
27 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
13 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3R1O1D2D2
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing PRODD

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PRODD:

32% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
13% chance
Suggested:
SALET
8% chance
Suggested:
LEANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

31.6%
SLATE 6.34 bits
12.6%
SALET 5.49 bits
8.4%
LEANT 5.08 bits
5.1%
TARRE 4.64 bits
5.1%
CASTE 5.04 bits
4.6%
SLATE 4.92 bits
4.0%
SLATE 5.39 bits
3.2%
ANILE 5.00 bits
2.8%
LIANE 4.86 bits
1.7%
TUILE 4.48 bits

Research on PRODD

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

Optimal play

Opening with PRODD, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.75 guesses and ranks #8,029 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 PRODD can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.73, at or below the proven-optimal 3.75, 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 PRAHD. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.