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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).

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 2,358 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 233 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #6,029 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.69 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.

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

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TORSE ALERT TOISE SOLDE PROLE GRISE
Words starting with F Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.38 Entropy (bits)
233 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 opener: v5 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
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#6,029 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, FANCY 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 (3.45 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 A D D Y
F A N C Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FANCY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

85 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

581
311
181
158
116
109
84
70
61
53
50
43
35
34
30
28
27
24
24
18
18
16
15
15
15
14
13
13
12
11

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 6.28 bits
13.2% →
ALERT 5.60 bits
7.7% →
TOISE 5.46 bits
6.7% →
SOLDE 4.69 bits
4.9% →
TORSE 4.72 bits
4.6% →
PROLE 5.23 bits
3.6% →
GRISE 4.72 bits
3.0% →
ROUTE 4.68 bits
2.6% →
CROME 4.66 bits
2.2% →
URITE 4.99 bits

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.