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

PUBIS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpju.bɪs/

Noun

The pubic bone; the part of the hipbone forming the front arch of the pelvis.

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 PUBIS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PUBIS 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 71.3% of games, misses completely in 28.7%, and leaves about 282 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,441 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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.
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Useful pattern pages

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

P___S P in the 1st position and S in the 5th position P__I_ P in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in PUBIS.

First-turn measures

All four describe PUBIS 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.

4.17 Entropy (bits)
282 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 31% of evaluated openers
1.78 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PUBIS 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#6,441 Rank among openers
Opening with PUBIS solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,441 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
858
4 guesses
1,226
5 guesses
213
6 guesses
9
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
2 vowels
Common:
ISU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
23%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

PUBIS can come back 82 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

682 answers
269 answers
254 answers
121 answers
100 answers
89 answers
85 answers
80 answers
66 answers
57 answers
56 answers
55 answers
31 answers
31 answers
29 answers
27 answers
20 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
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12 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3U1B3I1S1
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Try next

ROATE TRINE THALE TRONE STILE TALER

Strategy after playing PUBIS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PUBIS:

29% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
11% chance
Suggested:
TRINE
11% chance
Suggested:
THALE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

28.7% →
ROATE 6.00 bits
11.3% →
TRINE 5.44 bits
10.7% →
THALE 5.75 bits
5.1% →
TRONE 5.20 bits
4.2% →
ROATE 5.17 bits
3.7% →
STILE 4.49 bits
3.6% →
TALER 4.89 bits
3.4% →
MORNE 4.32 bits
2.8% →
ROATE 5.22 bits
2.4% →
SPATE 4.46 bits

Research on PUBIS

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

Optimal play

Opening with PUBIS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,646 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.86 guesses at best and is rank #3,249 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it POOBIHS. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PUBIS is a kind of bone.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PUBIS sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).