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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess F tier for first-turn info

FUNNY

Yes, FUNNY was the Wordle answer on December 18, 2023 (Wordle #912).

As an opener, it rules out about 77.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈfʌni//ˈfʊni//ˈfʌne/

Adjective

Amusing; humorous; comical.

“I know you'll enjoy chatting with her — she's really funny and smart.”

Adjective

Strange or unusual, often in an unpleasant way.

“The milk smelt funny so I poured it away.”

Noun

A joke.

Noun

A comic strip.

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: December 18, 2023 (#912).

See the full page for that puzzle: December 18, 2023 (#912).

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

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How FUNNY performs as a guess

FUNNY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 55.8% of games, misses completely in 44.2%, and leaves about 526 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,005 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.90 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 _U__Y U in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe FUNNY 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.

3.34 Entropy (bits)
526 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
77.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 4% of evaluated openers
2.61 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How FUNNY 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.

3.90 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.75 Spread of game lengths
#14,005 Rank among openers
Opening with FUNNY left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.75 means those games clustered within about 0.75 of a guess of the 3.90 average. It ranks #14,005 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
33
3 guesses
631
4 guesses
1,261
5 guesses
378
6 guesses
45
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:
NU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
56%
Green tile
36%
All gray
44%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
D O I N G
B U N N Y
F U N N Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches FUNNY in 5 guesses. See the trap-family guide for similar endgames.

Feedback distribution

FUNNY can come back 61 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1049 answers
220 answers
178 answers
168 answers
105 answers
99 answers
74 answers
71 answers
49 answers
47 answers
38 answers
32 answers
24 answers
19 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
15 answers
12 answers
10 answers
8 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

F4U1N1N1Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Try next

TARSE SALET ARIEL TORSE STIRE REAST

Strategy after playing FUNNY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing FUNNY:

44% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
9% chance
Suggested:
SALET
7% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

44.2% →
TARSE 6.29 bits
9.3% →
SALET 4.91 bits
7.5% →
ARIEL 5.47 bits
7.1% →
TORSE 5.41 bits
4.4% →
STIRE 4.86 bits
4.2% →
REAST 4.75 bits
3.1% →
CADIE 4.81 bits
3.0% →
IRATE 5.32 bits
2.1% →
OATER 4.76 bits
2.0% →
SLIME 2.98 bits

Research on FUNNY

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

Optimal play

Opening with FUNNY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.90 guesses and ranks #13,915 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.06 guesses at best and is rank #6,901 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.90, at or below the proven-optimal 3.90, 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 FUHNEE.

Rhymes with MONEY HONEY SUNNY BUNNY SONNY

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, FUNNY is a kind of joke.

Synonyms suspect curious COMIC odd suspicious amusing

Opposites well familiar

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
FUNNY sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 105 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in beginner learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level A1); among the first words English learners study.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 60 of 100. Raters gave it a middle-range score.

In a sentence

Is that funny to you?
© tatoeba.org contributor CK (CC BY 2.0 FR)
The new one is funny.
© tatoeba.org contributor Miktsoanit (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0).