5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

PUBCO

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A large business enterprise that owns a number of pubs under tenant agreements, or as managed houses.

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 PUBCO performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PUBCO 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 67.9% of games, misses completely in 32.1%, and leaves about 322 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,729 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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___O P in the 1st position and O in the 5th position P__C_ P in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _U__O U in the 2nd position and O in the 5th position

Try next

TIARE SOLER CRANE STANE SLIER LAIDE
Words starting with P Words ending with O

First-turn measures

4.05 Entropy (bits)
322 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 25% of evaluated openers
1.90 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PUBCO 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#8,729 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PUBCO ranks #8,729 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
38
3 guesses
838
4 guesses
1,207
5 guesses
251
6 guesses
19
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:
OU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
23%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

73 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

757
324
126
114
106
92
91
73
69
68
44
44
33
25
24
23
20
19
18
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17
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15
13
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11
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11
10

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PUBCO:

32% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
14% chance
Suggested:
SOLER
5% chance
Suggested:
CRANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.1% →
TIARE 6.26 bits
13.7% →
SOLER 5.22 bits
5.3% →
CRANE 5.30 bits
4.8% →
STANE 5.32 bits
4.5% →
SLIER 5.30 bits
3.9% →
LAIDE 5.19 bits
3.9% →
SLADE 4.61 bits
3.1% →
THALE 5.05 bits
2.9% →
CANER 4.70 bits
2.9% →
TARSE 4.98 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3U1B3C3O1
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 15 points

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