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

CUTEY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of cutie.

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

Use CUTEY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 93.8% 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 CUTEY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts CUTEY 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 86.5% of games, misses completely in 13.5%, and leaves about 148 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,963 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 CUTEY 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.

4.86 Entropy (bits)
148 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
93.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How CUTEY 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#6,963 Rank among openers
Opening with CUTEY left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.70 average. It ranks #6,963 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
851
4 guesses
1,183
5 guesses
233
6 guesses
22

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ETU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
86%
Green tile
43%
All gray
14%

Feedback distribution

CUTEY can come back 101 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

322 answers
320 answers
186 answers
182 answers
161 answers
120 answers
79 answers
77 answers
69 answers
53 answers
52 answers
47 answers
46 answers
46 answers
42 answers
37 answers
35 answers
31 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

C3U1T1E1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing CUTEY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing CUTEY:

14% chance
Suggested:
SALON
13% chance
Suggested:
ARISE
8% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

13.5% →
SALON 5.96 bits
13.4% →
ARISE 5.31 bits
7.8% →
ROAST 5.47 bits
7.6% →
SOLAR 4.59 bits
6.8% →
SOLAR 4.84 bits
5.0% →
SHART 5.04 bits
3.3% →
SONAR 4.69 bits
3.2% →
SORAL 4.67 bits
2.9% →
SONAR 4.83 bits
2.2% →
PEACE 4.60 bits

Research on CUTEY

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

Optimal play

Opening with CUTEY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,740 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 CUTEY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.70; proven optimal play reaches 3.68. The fixed strategy accounts for the difference.

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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
CUTEY 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).