5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

PSALM

Yes, PSALM was the Wordle answer on February 17, 2024 (Wordle #973).

As an opener, it rules out about 91.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /sɑːm//sɑm//sɑlm/

Noun

A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God.

Noun

One of the hymns by David and others, collected into one book of the Old Testament, or a modern metrical version of such a hymn for public worship.

Verb

To extol in psalms; to make music; to sing

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: February 17, 2024 (#973).

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

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How PSALM performs as a guess

PSALM 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 77.5% of games, misses completely in 22.5%, and leaves about 201 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,494 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

P___M P in the 1st position and M in the 5th position P__L_ P in the 1st position and L in the 4th position

Try next

TRONE TONER ROUET GOIER DRICE MOIRE
Words starting with P Words ending with M

First-turn measures

4.57 Entropy (bits)
201 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
91.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 56% of evaluated openers
1.38 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PSALM 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.66 Volatility
#3,494 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PSALM ranks #3,494 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
919
4 guesses
1,209
5 guesses
164
6 guesses
11
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
1 vowels
Common:
ALS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
27%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I C K
P S A L M

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PSALM in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

93 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

531
230
229
158
112
106
84
77
62
59
56
55
46
40
37
36
26
22
22
19
18
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12
11
11
11
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PSALM:

23% chance
Suggested:
TRONE
10% chance
Suggested:
TONER
10% chance
Suggested:
ROUET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.5% →
TRONE 6.13 bits
9.8% →
TONER 5.49 bits
9.7% →
ROUET 5.70 bits
6.7% →
GOIER 5.01 bits
4.7% →
TONER 4.66 bits
4.5% →
DRICE 5.06 bits
3.6% →
MOIRE 5.23 bits
3.3% →
DRICE 4.42 bits
2.6% →
CRUET 4.32 bits
2.5% →
RIONE 4.96 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3S1A1L1M3
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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