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PRUNE

Yes, PRUNE was the Wordle answer on April 28, 2024 (Wordle #1044).

As an opener, it rules out about 94.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /pɹuːn//pɹun//pɹʉːn/

Noun

The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.

Noun

Something wrinkly like a prune.

Verb

To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water.

Verb

To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.

“A good grape grower will prune the vines once a year.”

Alternative forms: proin

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: April 28, 2024 (#1044).

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

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How PRUNE performs as a guess

PRUNE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 84.6% of games, misses completely in 15.4%, and leaves about 124 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,653 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___E P in the 1st position and E in the 5th position P__N_ P in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _R__E R in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

SALTY DEALT LEAST COAST SHALT CANON
Words starting with P Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.16 Entropy (bits)
124 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
94.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 91% of evaluated openers
0.79 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PRUNE 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#1,653 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PRUNE ranks #1,653 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
81
3 guesses
965
4 guesses
1,101
5 guesses
191
6 guesses
14
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ENRU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
85%
Green tile
39%
All gray
15%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P R I S M
P R U D E
P R U N E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PRUNE in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

119 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

363
182
160
150
148
105
88
78
74
59
54
46
45
45
37
36
33
33
31
30
29
28
28
24
22
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18
17
17
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PRUNE:

15% chance
Suggested:
SALTY
8% chance
Suggested:
DEALT
7% chance
Suggested:
LEAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

15.4% →
SALTY 5.78 bits
7.7% →
DEALT 5.43 bits
6.8% →
LEAST 4.31 bits
6.4% →
COAST 5.26 bits
6.3% →
SHALT 5.25 bits
4.5% →
CANON 4.96 bits
3.7% →
SADLY 4.48 bits
3.3% →
COAST 4.67 bits
3.1% →
OAKEN 4.28 bits
2.5% →
COAST 4.54 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3R1U1N1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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