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

PUTAS

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

No dictionary definition for PUTAS is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use PUTAS in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.4% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How PUTAS performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PUTAS 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 80.0% of games, misses completely in 20.0%, and leaves about 181 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,886 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe PUTAS 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.

4.76 Entropy (bits)
181 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.4% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PUTAS 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#1,886 Rank among openers
Opening with PUTAS left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #1,886 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
60
3 guesses
968
4 guesses
1,150
5 guesses
163
6 guesses
12

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ASTU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
25%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

PUTAS can come back 100 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

477 answers
326 answers
142 answers
133 answers
89 answers
87 answers
82 answers
81 answers
79 answers
77 answers
52 answers
45 answers
43 answers
43 answers
40 answers
37 answers
36 answers
30 answers
28 answers
25 answers
21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
19 answers
17 answers
17 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3U1T1A1S1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Strategy after playing PUTAS

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PUTAS:

20% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
14% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
6% chance
Suggested:
THEIR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.0% →
DROLE 6.07 bits
13.7% →
CARLE 5.39 bits
6.0% →
THEIR 5.35 bits
5.6% →
SHINE 5.30 bits
3.7% →
TRINE 4.67 bits
3.6% →
SHALE 4.78 bits
3.4% →
CRONE 4.58 bits
3.4% →
CRIME 4.23 bits
3.3% →
STIRE 4.64 bits
3.2% →
DRONE 5.17 bits

Research on PUTAS

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

Optimal play

Opening with PUTAS, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.67 guesses and ranks #3,038 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with PUTAS can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.67, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PUTAS sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).