5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

PURRS

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

plural of purr

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of purr

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 PURRS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PURRS 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 70.0% of games, misses completely in 30.0%, and leaves about 307 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #9,059 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.74 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___S P in the 1st position and S in the 5th position P__R_ P in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _U__S U in the 2nd position and S in the 5th position

Try next

ALONE DAINE STALE ATONE GLACE COATE
Words starting with P Words ending with S

First-turn measures

4.05 Entropy (bits)
307 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.0% 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 PURRS 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.

3.74 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#9,059 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PURRS ranks #9,059 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
827
4 guesses
1,185
5 guesses
269
6 guesses
22
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
RSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
26%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

79 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

707
313
269
104
91
74
72
63
57
54
51
49
42
34
30
28
28
22
20
15
15
12
11
10
10
9
9
9
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PURRS:

30% chance
Suggested:
ALONE
13% chance
Suggested:
DAINE
11% chance
Suggested:
STALE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.0% →
ALONE 6.05 bits
13.3% →
DAINE 5.39 bits
11.4% →
STALE 5.73 bits
4.4% →
ATONE 4.97 bits
3.9% →
GLACE 4.22 bits
3.1% →
COATE 4.83 bits
3.1% →
COATE 4.86 bits
2.7% →
TOILE 4.64 bits
2.4% →
LEANT 5.15 bits
2.3% →
HAOLE 5.05 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3U1R1R1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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