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

PROIN

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /pɹɔɪn/

Verb

Obsolete form of prune.

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

Use PROIN in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 94.0% 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 PROIN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PROIN 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 82.5% of games, misses completely in 17.5%, and leaves about 144 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #230 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.57 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 PROIN 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.

5.05 Entropy (bits)
144 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
94.0% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PROIN 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.

3.57 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#230 Rank among openers
Opening with PROIN left 2 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 3.57 average. It ranks #230 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
1,068
4 guesses
1,054
5 guesses
156
6 guesses
12

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
INOR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
82%
Green tile
33%
All gray
18%

Feedback distribution

PROIN can come back 115 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

417 answers
219 answers
167 answers
132 answers
131 answers
108 answers
91 answers
87 answers
79 answers
66 answers
62 answers
51 answers
43 answers
41 answers
37 answers
31 answers
28 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3R1O1I1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing PROIN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PROIN:

17% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
9% chance
Suggested:
SALET
7% chance
Suggested:
STILE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.5% →
SLATE 6.44 bits
9.2% →
SALET 5.37 bits
7.0% →
STILE 5.41 bits
5.5% →
SALET 4.94 bits
5.5% →
LEAST 5.26 bits
4.5% →
TARRE 4.59 bits
3.8% →
SLATE 4.78 bits
3.6% →
CASTE 5.04 bits
3.3% →
SHITE 4.50 bits
2.8% →
SLATE 5.22 bits

Research on PROIN

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

Optimal play

Opening with PROIN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,224 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 #502 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.57, at or below the proven-optimal 3.64, 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).