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FANCY

Yes, FANCY was the Wordle answer on January 14, 2025 (Wordle #1305).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfæn.si/

Noun

The imagination.

Noun

An image or representation of anything formed in the mind.

Adjective

Decorative, or featuring decorations, especially intricate or diverse ones.

“This is a fancy shawl.”

Adjective

Of a superior grade.

“This box contains bottles of the fancy grade of jelly.”

Alternative forms: fancie, fansie, phancie, phancy

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: January 14, 2025 (#1305).

See the full page for that puzzle: January 14, 2025 (#1305).

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

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How FANCY performs as a guess

FANCY 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 75.4% of games, misses completely in 24.6%, and leaves about 235 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #6,029 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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.

F___Y F in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position F__C_ F in the 1st position and C in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FANCY 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.

4.39 Entropy (bits)
235 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 44% of evaluated openers
1.56 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FANCY 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.

3.69 Avg guesses
100% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#6,029 Rank among openers
Opening with FANCY solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.69 average. It ranks #6,029 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
856
4 guesses
1,238
5 guesses
202
6 guesses
8
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:
AN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
75%
Green tile
38%
All gray
25%

Example solver route

R O A T E
N A S A L
C H I D E
F A N C Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FANCY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

FANCY can come back 85 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

585 answers
313 answers
184 answers
159 answers
116 answers
109 answers
84 answers
70 answers
62 answers
53 answers
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Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4A1N1C3Y4
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

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Strategy after playing FANCY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FANCY:

25% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
13% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
8% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.6% →
TORSE 6.27 bits
13.2% →
ALERT 5.62 bits
7.8% →
TOISE 5.46 bits
6.7% →
SOLDE 4.70 bits
4.9% →
TORSE 4.72 bits
4.6% →
PROLE 5.23 bits
3.5% →
GRISE 4.72 bits
2.9% →
ROUTE 4.68 bits
2.6% →
SOLER 4.68 bits
2.2% →
URITE 4.99 bits

Research on FANCY

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

Optimal play

Opening with FANCY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.74 guesses and ranks #7,263 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 FANCY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.69, at or below the proven-optimal 3.74, 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 FANSEE.

Rhymes with NANCY DANCY

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, FANCY is a kind of misconception or vision.

Synonyms see project picture figure IMAGE fantasy

Opposites PLAIN

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FANCY sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 22 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A2); among the first words English learners study.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.6 of 5).

In a sentence

Love is just a fancy.
© tatoeba.org contributor OsoHombre (CC BY 2.0 FR)
No, I don't fancy like it.
© tatoeba.org contributor sundown (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; Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).