5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

BUTTY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 81.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈbʊti//ˈbʌti/

Noun

A sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.

“Let's have a bacon butty!”

Noun

A friend.

Verb

To work together; to keep company with.

“I butty with Jackson.”

Verb

To cohabit; to reside with another as a couple.

“Did'n'ee 'ear as Jim Tunkiss brought three children to the parish? I reckon 'e inna married, but 'e's bin buttyin' along o' one o' them Monsells.”

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 BUTTY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts BUTTY 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 60.6% of games, misses completely in 39.4%, and leaves about 445 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,846 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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.

Useful pattern pages

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

B___Y B in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position B__T_ B in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _U__Y U in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

RAISE ARISE SORAL SNORE LIANE SLIER
Words starting with B Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.57 Entropy (bits)
445 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 8% of evaluated openers
2.38 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How BUTTY 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#12,846 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, BUTTY ranks #12,846 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
723
4 guesses
1,192
5 guesses
376
6 guesses
21
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
TU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
61%
Green tile
34%
All gray
39%

Feedback distribution

67 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

930
286
217
151
96
81
58
57
56
44
44
37
21
17
16
16
13
13
12
11
10
10
9
8
8
8
7
7
7
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing BUTTY:

39% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
12% chance
Suggested:
ARISE
9% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

39.4% →
RAISE 6.10 bits
12.1% →
ARISE 5.77 bits
9.2% →
SORAL 4.88 bits
6.4% →
SNORE 5.20 bits
4.1% →
LIANE 5.38 bits
3.4% →
SLIER 4.85 bits
2.5% →
SNORE 4.38 bits
2.4% →
CANER 4.64 bits
2.4% →
SOARE 4.75 bits
1.9% →
SLIME 2.90 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

B3U1T1T1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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