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

PYRAN

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Any of a class of unsaturated heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of five carbon atoms, an oxygen atom and two double bonds; especially the simplest one, C₅H₆O.

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 PYRAN performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PYRAN 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 83.6% of games, misses completely in 16.4%, and leaves about 158 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,536 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 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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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

P___N P in the 1st position and N in the 5th position P__A_ P in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _Y__N Y in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in PYRAN.

First-turn measures

All four describe PYRAN 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.

4.79 Entropy (bits)
158 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 71% of evaluated openers
1.16 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PYRAN 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,536 Rank among openers
Opening with PYRAN left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.63 average. It ranks #2,536 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
62
3 guesses
964
4 guesses
1,122
5 guesses
195
6 guesses
10
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:
ANR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
84%
Green tile
24%
All gray
16%

Feedback distribution

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

389 answers
256 answers
248 answers
159 answers
144 answers
124 answers
73 answers
65 answers
65 answers
61 answers
55 answers
47 answers
44 answers
37 answers
34 answers
31 answers
30 answers
28 answers
27 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
21 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3Y4R1A1N1
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

TOILE SLATE TOISE TRACE SOLDE TUILE

Strategy after playing PYRAN

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PYRAN:

16% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
11% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
10% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

16.4% →
TOILE 6.18 bits
10.8% →
SLATE 5.66 bits
10.4% →
TOISE 5.35 bits
6.7% →
TOISE 5.45 bits
6.1% →
TRACE 4.66 bits
5.2% →
SOLDE 4.76 bits
3.1% →
TUILE 4.41 bits
2.7% →
HOISE 4.89 bits
2.7% →
STILE 5.25 bits
2.6% →
SALET 4.31 bits

Research on PYRAN

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

Optimal play

Opening with PYRAN, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,561 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.81 guesses at best and is rank #1,737 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it PYRUHN. Estimated pronunciation

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

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PYRAN 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); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).