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GUTTY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Charged or sprinkled with drops.

Adjective

Gutsy; brave.

Noun

One who works in a slaughterhouse cutting out the internal organs.

Noun

An urchin or delinquent.

Alternative forms: goutty, goutté, gouté, gutté

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

From goutte + -y, or anglicization of (Old or Middle French) goutté, ultimately from Latin gutta (“drop (of a liquid)”) (also the ultimate source of English goutte and French goutte). Compare guttated.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use GUTTY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 81.8% of possible answers.

Open Solver with GUTTY Open Word Finder

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 GUTTY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GUTTY 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 61.2% of games, misses completely in 38.8%, and leaves about 433 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #13,024 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.84 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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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

G___Y G in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position G__T_ G in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _U__Y U in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position GU_TY G in the 1st position, U in the 2nd position, T in the 4th position, and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe GUTTY 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.

3.64 Entropy (bits)
433 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How GUTTY 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.

3.84 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#13,024 Rank among openers
Opening with GUTTY left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.84 average. It ranks #13,024 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
37
3 guesses
708
4 guesses
1,215
5 guesses
369
6 guesses
23

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
TU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
61%
Green tile
32%
All gray
39%

Feedback distribution

GUTTY can come back 68 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

924 answers
276 answers
211 answers
146 answers
97 answers
69 answers
64 answers
61 answers
60 answers
60 answers
46 answers
37 answers
26 answers
23 answers
22 answers
17 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
14 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

G2U1T1T1Y4
Total: 9 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

ARIEL REAST SORAL SNORE RAILE CARLE

Strategy after playing GUTTY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GUTTY:

39% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
12% chance
Suggested:
REAST
9% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

38.8% →
ARIEL 6.09 bits
11.6% →
REAST 5.67 bits
8.9% →
SORAL 4.82 bits
6.1% →
SNORE 5.19 bits
4.1% →
RAILE 5.35 bits
2.9% →
CARLE 4.70 bits
2.7% →
CANER 4.62 bits
2.6% →
SNORE 4.40 bits
2.5% →
SOARE 4.78 bits
2.5% →
NOIRE 5.03 bits

Research on GUTTY

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

Optimal play

Opening with GUTTY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.86 guesses and ranks #12,850 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with GUTTY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.84, at or below the proven-optimal 3.86, 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.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
GUTTY 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).