5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

FOOTY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfʊti//ˈfʉte//fʉtɪ/

Noun

Football (association football) (soccer in US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand).

Noun

The game or sport of football, usually Australian rules football or rugby league, but not soccer.

Adjective

Having foots (settlings).

“footy oil or molasses”

Adjective

Of bad quality; mean, poor.

Alternative forms: footie, foughty

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 FOOTY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FOOTY 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 64.9% of games, misses completely in 35.1%, and leaves about 378 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,575 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__T_ F in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

RAISE REAST LAIDE CARLE CRANE MANOR
Words starting with F Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.78 Entropy (bits)
378 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 14% of evaluated openers
2.17 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How FOOTY 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
0.73 Volatility
#12,575 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, FOOTY ranks #12,575 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
46
3 guesses
705
4 guesses
1,235
5 guesses
338
6 guesses
27
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
2 vowels
Common:
OT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
40%
All gray
35%

Feedback distribution

73 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

828
328
197
122
111
109
59
59
42
41
40
37
36
33
33
22
21
18
16
16
12
11
10
10
8
8
8
8
8
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FOOTY:

35% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
14% chance
Suggested:
REAST
8% chance
Suggested:
LAIDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.1% →
RAISE 6.19 bits
13.9% →
REAST 5.58 bits
8.4% →
LAIDE 4.69 bits
5.2% →
CARLE 4.81 bits
4.7% →
CRANE 5.04 bits
4.6% →
MANOR 5.29 bits
2.5% →
URASE 4.61 bits
2.5% →
ALINE 4.93 bits
1.8% →
TRINE 3.90 bits
1.7% →
SOLDE 3.49 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4O1O1T1Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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