5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

FENNY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfɛni/

Adjective

Characteristic of or resembling a fen (“characteristically alkaline wetland containing peat below the waterline”); marshy, swampy; also, of land: containing a fen or fens.

Adjective

Now chiefly of plants: growing or living in a fen.

Noun

Alternative form of fennie (“fenestration”).

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 FENNY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FENNY 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 74.0% of games, misses completely in 26.0%, and leaves about 342 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,455 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.87 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 _E__Y E in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

ROAST STAIR SOLAR SLART TRAIN ARIEL
Words starting with F Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.73 Entropy (bits)
342 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 13% of evaluated openers
2.22 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How FENNY 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.

3.87 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#13,455 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, FENNY ranks #13,455 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
672
4 guesses
1,243
5 guesses
359
6 guesses
38
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:
EN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
74%
Green tile
38%
All gray
26%

Feedback distribution

65 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

612
572
218
131
101
96
86
47
46
38
35
32
32
25
21
21
18
18
17
17
16
14
14
12
11
9
6
6
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FENNY:

26% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
24% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
9% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

26.0% →
ROAST 6.07 bits
24.3% →
STAIR 5.43 bits
9.2% →
SOLAR 4.77 bits
5.6% →
SLART 4.98 bits
4.3% →
STAIR 4.55 bits
4.1% →
TRAIN 5.08 bits
3.6% →
ARIEL 4.45 bits
2.0% →
COAST 4.26 bits
2.0% →
SORAL 4.78 bits
1.6% →
SLART 4.13 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4E1N1N1Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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