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FENNY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.6% 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 74.1% of games, misses completely in 25.9%, and leaves about 343 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,455 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.87 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in FENNY.

First-turn measures

All four describe FENNY 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.

3.73 Entropy (bits)
343 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 13% of evaluated openers
2.21 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous 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
99.87% Solved within six
0.74 Spread of game lengths
#13,455 Rank among openers
Opening with FENNY left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.74 means those games clustered within about 0.74 of a guess of the 3.87 average. It 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 (3.46 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

FENNY can come back 65 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

615 answers
573 answers
219 answers
134 answers
102 answers
97 answers
90 answers
47 answers
46 answers
38 answers
35 answers
32 answers
32 answers
25 answers
21 answers
21 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
12 answers
11 answers
9 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers

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.

Try next

ROAST STAIR SOLAR SLART TRAIN ARIEL

Strategy after playing FENNY

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to FENNY.

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.

25.9% →
ROAST 6.07 bits
24.1% →
STAIR 5.43 bits
9.2% →
SOLAR 4.78 bits
5.6% →
SLART 4.95 bits
4.3% →
STAIR 4.54 bits
4.1% →
TRAIN 5.06 bits
3.8% →
ARIEL 4.47 bits
2.0% →
COAST 4.26 bits
1.9% →
SORAL 4.78 bits
1.6% →
SLART 4.13 bits

Research on FENNY

Game-tree analysis and word research for FENNY, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with FENNY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.88 guesses and ranks #13,436 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.08 guesses at best and is rank #7,028 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.87, at or below the proven-optimal 3.88, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it FEHNEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FENNY sits in the rare band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word few players will have met in print.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).