FANNY
FANNY is on the solver's possible-answer list and has no appearance in our globally completed Wordle history.
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈfæni/
- Noun
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The female genitalia.
“Her dress was so short you could nearly see her fanny.”
- Noun
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The buttocks; arguably the most nearly polite of several euphemisms.
“Children, sit down on your fannies, and eat your lunch.”
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
The British naval slang sense derives from Fanny Adams. Tins of mutton introduced as rations were not liked by the sailors and were taken by them to contain the butchered remains of Fanny Adams who had been brutally murdered and dismembered. The tins were re-used for eating from and cooking with.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it FANEE.
Rhymes with DANNY NANNY MANNY CANNY PANNY
Related meanings
Synonyms can behind ass bottom seat rear
Use FANNY in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 85.0% of possible answers.
Wordle status
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Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
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See what the public sample says →How FANNY performs as a guess
FANNY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 when every answer is treated as equally likely.
Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 67.9% of games, misses completely in 32.1%, and leaves about 358 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,593 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe FANNY 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How FANNY 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches FANNY in 4 guesses.
Feedback distribution
FANNY can come back 69 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for FANNY; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
Scrabble
Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing FANNY
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to FANNY.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing FANNY:
Research on FANNY
Game-tree analysis and word research for FANNY, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with FANNY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #13,006 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 FANNY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.83, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, 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.
Familiarity and learning
- Frequency
- FANNY 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.
- Dominant sense
- Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (3.3 of 5).
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); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).