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

PYNED

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

As an opener, it rules out about 91.2% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Verb

simple past and past participle of pyne

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 PYNED performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PYNED 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 79.3% of games, misses completely in 20.7%, and leaves about 209 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #4,616 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe PYNED 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.

4.51 Entropy (bits)
209 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 52% of evaluated openers
1.44 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PYNED 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#4,616 Rank among openers
Opening with PYNED solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.66 average. It ranks #4,616 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
898
4 guesses
1,184
5 guesses
195
6 guesses
16
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
1 vowels
Common:
EN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
28%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

PYNED can come back 94 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

492 answers
376 answers
166 answers
159 answers
153 answers
74 answers
70 answers
69 answers
49 answers
49 answers
47 answers
47 answers
45 answers
38 answers
36 answers
35 answers
30 answers
28 answers
24 answers
24 answers
23 answers
22 answers
21 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
14 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3Y4N1E1D2
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing PYNED

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PYNED:

21% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
16% chance
Suggested:
SLART
7% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.7%
ROAST 6.11 bits
15.8%
SLART 5.88 bits
7.0%
SAINT 5.32 bits
6.7%
SOLAR 5.02 bits
6.4%
ROAST 4.52 bits
3.1%
ANISE 4.58 bits
2.9%
ROAST 5.09 bits
2.9%
GEARE 4.58 bits
2.1%
ALURE 4.43 bits
2.1%
SORAL 4.04 bits

Research on PYNED

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

Optimal play

Opening with PYNED, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.69 guesses and ranks #4,001 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 PYNED can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.66, at or below the proven-optimal 3.69, 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

One syllable Say it PYND. Estimated pronunciation

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

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.