5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet B tier opener

PULSE

PULSE is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /pʌls/[pəls]/pʊls/

Noun

A normally regular beat felt when arteries near the skin (for example, at the neck or wrist) are depressed, caused by the heart pumping blood through them; the qualitative nature of this beat.

“Her pulse was thready and weak.”

Noun

The rate of this beat as an indication of a person's health.

“Her pulse was 110 at 8 a.m.”

Verb

To emit or impel (something) in pulses or waves.

Verb

To give to (something, especially a cell culture) an (increased) amount of a substance, such as a drug or an isotopic label, over a short time.

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

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 PULSE performs as a guess

PULSE 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 83.0% of games, misses completely in 17.0%, and leaves about 147 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,529 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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___E P in the 1st position and E in the 5th position P__S_ P in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _U__E U in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIN TENOR CORAL GRACE STAIN RENAL
Words starting with P Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.08 Entropy (bits)
147 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 87% of evaluated openers
0.87 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PULSE 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#1,529 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PULSE ranks #1,529 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
88
3 guesses
953
4 guesses
1,112
5 guesses
180
6 guesses
18
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:
ELSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
37%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I N G
P U L S E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PULSE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

122 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

402
292
153
137
108
99
69
66
55
54
51
46
39
38
38
35
33
32
29
27
26
26
24
19
18
18
16
16
15
14

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PULSE:

17% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
12% chance
Suggested:
TENOR
6% chance
Suggested:
CORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.0% →
TRAIN 6.03 bits
12.4% →
TENOR 5.14 bits
6.5% →
CORAL 5.08 bits
5.8% →
GRACE 4.40 bits
4.6% →
STAIN 5.05 bits
4.2% →
RENAL 4.36 bits
2.9% →
RAINY 4.08 bits
2.8% →
GRUNT 4.87 bits
2.3% →
TIARE 4.41 bits
2.3% →
STEER 4.65 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3U1L1S1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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