Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

FROWY

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

No dictionary definition for FROWY is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use FROWY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 87.6% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How FROWY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FROWY 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 70.5% of games, misses completely in 29.5%, and leaves about 297 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,306 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe FROWY 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.

4.06 Entropy (bits)
297 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.6% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FROWY 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.

3.75 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#9,306 Rank among openers
Opening with FROWY left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.75 average. It ranks #9,306 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
782
4 guesses
1,281
5 guesses
244
6 guesses
8

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
OR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
37%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

FROWY can come back 72 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

704 answers
278 answers
200 answers
179 answers
143 answers
109 answers
106 answers
64 answers
57 answers
51 answers
42 answers
41 answers
26 answers
25 answers
23 answers
22 answers
18 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers
12 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4R1O1W4Y4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Strategy after playing FROWY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FROWY:

30% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
12% chance
Suggested:
SALET
8% chance
Suggested:
CONTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.5% →
SLANE 6.34 bits
11.7% →
SALET 5.42 bits
8.4% →
CONTE 5.26 bits
7.5% →
SAULT 4.83 bits
6.0% →
CADIE 5.03 bits
4.6% →
STALE 4.81 bits
4.4% →
TARRE 4.58 bits
2.7% →
THALE 5.16 bits
2.4% →
TARRE 4.35 bits
2.1% →
LIANE 4.76 bits

Research on FROWY

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

Optimal play

Opening with FROWY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.80 guesses and ranks #10,710 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 3.94 guesses at best and is rank #5,081 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.80, 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.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).