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

PTISH

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

No dictionary definition for PTISH is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use PTISH in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 89.6% 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 PTISH performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PTISH 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 71.8% of games, misses completely in 28.2%, and leaves about 248 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,395 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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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First-turn measures

All four describe PTISH 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.

4.59 Entropy (bits)
248 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
89.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PTISH 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,395 Rank among openers
Opening with PTISH solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,395 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
971
4 guesses
1,124
5 guesses
182
6 guesses
16

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
72%
Green tile
30%
All gray
28%

Feedback distribution

PTISH can come back 105 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

672 answers
214 answers
176 answers
125 answers
102 answers
67 answers
67 answers
61 answers
55 answers
47 answers
46 answers
45 answers
43 answers
41 answers
38 answers
38 answers
36 answers
32 answers
30 answers
29 answers
23 answers
23 answers
21 answers
17 answers
15 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3T1I1S1H4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Strategy after playing PTISH

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PTISH:

28% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
9% chance
Suggested:
TREAT
7% chance
Suggested:
LINER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.2% →
DROLE 6.02 bits
9.0% →
TREAT 5.59 bits
7.4% →
LINER 5.27 bits
5.2% →
CARNE 5.29 bits
4.3% →
GLARE 5.06 bits
2.8% →
CARNE 5.27 bits
2.8% →
TRAIT 4.41 bits
2.6% →
ALONE 4.93 bits
2.3% →
LAREE 4.68 bits
2.0% →
ROAKE 4.37 bits

Research on PTISH

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

Optimal play

Opening with PTISH, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #3,826 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.80 guesses at best and is rank #1,428 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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).