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

PRUNT

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /pɹʌnt/

Noun

A small piece of glass fused to the main body of a piece of glasswork and then shaped or pressed, for decoration

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 PRUNT performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PRUNT 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 81.2% of games, misses completely in 18.8%, and leaves about 162 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #392 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.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

First-turn measures

All four describe PRUNT 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.

4.92 Entropy (bits)
162 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 79% of evaluated openers
1.03 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PRUNT 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
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#392 Rank among openers
Opening with PRUNT left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.58 average. It ranks #392 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
71
3 guesses
1,009
4 guesses
1,124
5 guesses
136
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
1 vowels
Common:
NRTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
34%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

PRUNT can come back 112 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

447 answers
257 answers
180 answers
160 answers
107 answers
90 answers
86 answers
77 answers
71 answers
55 answers
55 answers
53 answers
48 answers
31 answers
30 answers
29 answers
29 answers
28 answers
26 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3R1U1N1T1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing PRUNT

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PRUNT:

19% chance
Suggested:
ALOSE
11% chance
Suggested:
SOLED
8% chance
Suggested:
LAIDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.8%
ALOSE 6.08 bits
10.8%
SOLED 5.07 bits
7.6%
LAIDE 5.30 bits
6.7%
TASTE 5.42 bits
4.5%
CADIE 5.01 bits
3.8%
ALOSE 4.90 bits
3.6%
SADLY 4.59 bits
3.2%
ALOSE 5.25 bits
3.0%
TASER 4.59 bits
2.3%
GLACE 4.52 bits

Research on PRUNT

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

Optimal play

Opening with PRUNT, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.64 guesses and ranks #1,160 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 PRUNT can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.58, 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.

How it sounds

One syllable Say it PRUHNT. 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.