5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

PUNJI

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A sharpened stick, often made of bamboo and covered in feces or other biohazardous material, set in the ground to wound or impale enemy soldiers.

Alternative forms: panjee, panji, punjee, punjie

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 PUNJI performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PUNJI 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 64.5% of games, misses completely in 35.5%, and leaves about 393 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,500 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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___I P in the 1st position and I in the 5th position _U__I U in the 2nd position and I in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE SALET LEARN TORSE SAGER MORSE
Words starting with P Words ending with I

First-turn measures

3.56 Entropy (bits)
393 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 8% of evaluated openers
2.39 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PUNJI 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#12,500 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PUNJI ranks #12,500 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
33
3 guesses
676
4 guesses
1,335
5 guesses
289
6 guesses
21
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:
INU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
64%
Green tile
19%
All gray
36%

Feedback distribution

58 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

836
342
185
152
115
114
106
61
56
53
41
40
31
25
21
15
12
12
12
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8
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5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PUNJI:

35% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
15% chance
Suggested:
SALET
8% chance
Suggested:
LEARN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.5% →
TARSE 6.27 bits
14.5% →
SALET 5.30 bits
7.8% →
LEARN 5.19 bits
6.4% →
TORSE 5.37 bits
4.9% →
SAGER 4.64 bits
4.8% →
TARSE 5.54 bits
4.5% →
MORSE 4.45 bits
2.6% →
CAGEY 4.50 bits
2.4% →
TARSE 5.02 bits
2.2% →
TORSE 3.93 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3U1N1J8I1
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 19 points

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