5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

FEMMY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 81.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a femme (a feminine gay man or lesbian).

Alternative forms: femme-y

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

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 FEMMY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FEMMY 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 69.5% of games, misses completely in 30.5%, and leaves about 437 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,237 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.92 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__M_ F in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _E__Y E in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIN ARISE SORAL SLART SONAR SLANT
Words starting with F Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.32 Entropy (bits)
437 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 4% of evaluated openers
2.63 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How FEMMY 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.

3.92 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#14,237 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, FEMMY ranks #14,237 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
30
3 guesses
607
4 guesses
1,268
5 guesses
409
6 guesses
36
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:
E

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
32%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

54 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

719
647
228
150
78
61
50
39
34
33
31
29
24
23
21
21
19
17
14
13
13
11
7
6
6
6
5
5
4
4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FEMMY:

30% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
27% chance
Suggested:
ARISE
10% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.5% →
TRAIN 6.12 bits
27.4% →
ARISE 5.27 bits
9.7% →
SORAL 4.78 bits
6.4% →
SLART 4.86 bits
3.3% →
SONAR 5.07 bits
2.6% →
SLANT 4.73 bits
2.1% →
ARISE 4.53 bits
1.7% →
SLART 3.96 bits
1.4% →
COAST 4.18 bits
1.4% →
STAIR 4.01 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4E1M3M3Y4
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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