5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

FUFFY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 62.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Proper noun

The ship of characters Faith and Buffy Summers from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Proper noun

Faith while inhabiting Buffy Summers' body during their bodyswap.

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 FUFFY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts FUFFY 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 40.7% of games, misses completely in 59.3%, and leaves about 897 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,843 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.13 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__F_ F in the 1st position and F in the 4th position _U__Y U in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TIARE SARED STONE TRICE IRATE SLART
Words starting with F Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

2.25 Entropy (bits)
897 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
62.0% Avg ruled out
In the bottom 1% for first-turn entropy
3.70 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How FUFFY 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.

4.13 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#14,843 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, FUFFY ranks #14,843 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
17
3 guesses
409
4 guesses
1,220
5 guesses
651
6 guesses
51
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

3/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
U

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
41%
Green tile
28%
All gray
59%

Feedback distribution

33 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1398
275
236
126
86
53
47
19
17
16
13
12
8
7
6
5
4
4
4
3
3
3
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FUFFY:

59% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
12% chance
Suggested:
SARED
10% chance
Suggested:
STONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

59.3% →
TIARE 6.16 bits
11.7% →
SARED 4.87 bits
10.0% →
STONE 5.27 bits
5.3% →
TRICE 4.73 bits
3.6% →
IRATE 5.35 bits
2.2% →
SLART 3.13 bits
2.0% →
ALONE 4.62 bits
0.8% →
ATONE 3.68 bits
0.7% →
CATER 3.85 bits
0.7% →
LIANE 3.50 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4U1F4F4Y4
Total: 17 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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