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ANNOY

Yes, ANNOY was the Wordle answer on October 8, 2025 (Wordle #1572).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /əˈnoɪ̯/[əˈnoɪ̯]/əˈnɔɪ̯/

Verb

To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.

“Marc loved his sister, but when she annoyed him he wanted to switch her off.”

Verb

To molest; to harm; to injure.

“to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade”

Noun

A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.

Noun

That which causes such a feeling.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: October 8, 2025 (#1572).

See the full page for that puzzle: October 8, 2025 (#1572).

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

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How ANNOY performs as a guess

ANNOY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 78.0% of games, misses completely in 22.0%, and leaves about 258 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,504 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Useful pattern pages

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

A___Y A in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position A__O_ A in the 1st position and O in the 4th position _N__Y N in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe ANNOY 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.

4.11 Entropy (bits)
258 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 28% of evaluated openers
1.83 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How ANNOY 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#11,504 Rank among openers
Opening with ANNOY left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,504 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
42
3 guesses
755
4 guesses
1,222
5 guesses
300
6 guesses
32
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

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ANO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
33%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S A L O N
A N N O Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches ANNOY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

ANNOY can come back 76 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

522 answers
440 answers
274 answers
139 answers
103 answers
85 answers
85 answers
66 answers
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43 answers
38 answers
19 answers
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15 answers
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11 answers
11 answers
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11 answers
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10 answers
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9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

A1N1N1O1Y4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

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

Try next

SLIER REAST TORSE SIDLE GRISE SLART

Strategy after playing ANNOY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing ANNOY:

22% chance
Suggested:
SLIER
19% chance
Suggested:
REAST
12% chance
Suggested:
TORSE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.0% →
SLIER 6.14 bits
18.5% →
REAST 5.55 bits
11.5% →
TORSE 5.46 bits
5.9% →
SIDLE 4.61 bits
4.3% →
GRISE 5.12 bits
3.6% →
SLART 4.24 bits
3.6% →
LEANT 4.17 bits
2.8% →
WRITE 4.45 bits
2.7% →
STIRE 4.84 bits
2.5% →
DROLE 3.97 bits

Research on ANNOY

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

Optimal play

Opening with ANNOY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.84 guesses and ranks #12,318 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.00 guesses at best and is rank #6,253 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.84, 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 second syllable Say it UHNOY.

Rhymes with ENJOY SAVOY DECOY

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, ANNOY is a kind of have.

Synonyms bother DEVIL gravel rag irritate

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
ANNOY sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 3 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 6, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 39 of 100. Raters found it difficult to picture.

In a sentence

You love to annoy me.
© tatoeba.org contributor Eccles17 (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Annoy me one more time!
© tatoeba.org contributor Eccles17 (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).