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

ACIDY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Like an acid, somewhat acidic.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From acid + -y. Doublet of acidic.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use ACIDY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 91.8% 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 ACIDY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts ACIDY 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 80.7% of games, misses completely in 19.3%, and leaves about 196 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,566 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.70 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 ACIDY 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.

4.50 Entropy (bits)
196 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ACIDY 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.

3.70 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#6,566 Rank among openers
Opening with ACIDY left 2 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 3.70 average. It ranks #6,566 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
858
4 guesses
1,226
5 guesses
203
6 guesses
17

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
AI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
33%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

ACIDY can come back 83 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

461 answers
363 answers
151 answers
136 answers
133 answers
127 answers
122 answers
87 answers
73 answers
67 answers
53 answers
49 answers
44 answers
41 answers
40 answers
33 answers
22 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1C3I1D2Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing ACIDY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ACIDY:

19% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
15% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
6% chance
Suggested:
RONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.3% →
TORSE 6.34 bits
15.2% →
TARSE 5.64 bits
6.3% →
RONTE 5.30 bits
5.7% →
TRONE 5.02 bits
5.6% →
SPORE 4.62 bits
5.3% →
CHORE 5.29 bits
5.1% →
CHARE 4.84 bits
3.6% →
DRONE 4.96 bits
3.1% →
BLORE 4.94 bits
2.8% →
SLART 4.27 bits

Research on ACIDY

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

Optimal play

Opening with ACIDY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.73 guesses and ranks #7,010 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 ACIDY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70, at or below the proven-optimal 3.73, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).