5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet F tier opener

FANNY

FANNY is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 84.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfæni/

Noun

The female genitalia.

“Her dress was so short you could nearly see her fanny.”

Noun

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.

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

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 FANNY performs as a guess

FANNY 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 67.8% of games, misses completely in 32.2%, and leaves about 355 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,593 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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__N_ F in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TORSE SLATE SOLDE SIREN TOISE HOISE
Words starting with F Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.76 Entropy (bits)
355 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
84.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 14% of evaluated openers
2.18 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#12,593 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, FANNY ranks #12,593 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
678
4 guesses
1,288
5 guesses
329
6 guesses
15
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:
AN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
39%
All gray
32%

Example solver route

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

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FANNY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

69 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

760
402
176
153
117
89
62
61
59
58
40
39
31
27
21
20
19
18
14
14
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8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FANNY:

32% chance
Suggested:
TORSE
17% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
7% chance
Suggested:
SOLDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.2% →
TORSE 6.20 bits
17.0% →
SLATE 5.59 bits
7.5% →
SOLDE 4.67 bits
6.5% →
TORSE 4.76 bits
5.0% →
SIREN 5.17 bits
3.8% →
TOISE 4.74 bits
2.6% →
HOISE 4.49 bits
2.6% →
URITE 5.07 bits
2.5% →
GRISE 4.54 bits
2.5% →
SLART 3.47 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4A1N1N1Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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