5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet F tier opener

PADDY

PADDY is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 83.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpædi/

Noun

Rough or unhusked rice, either before it is milled or as a crop to be harvested.

Noun

A paddy field, a rice paddy; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown.

Adjective

Low; mean; boorish; vagabond.

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

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 PADDY performs as a guess

PADDY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 66.3% of games, misses completely in 33.7%, and leaves about 380 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #12,086 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.81 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.

P___Y P in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position P__D_ P in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TOISE SLART CLOTE SILER TRINE STIRE
Words starting with P Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.67 Entropy (bits)
380 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
83.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 11% of evaluated openers
2.28 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PADDY 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.

3.81 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#12,086 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PADDY ranks #12,086 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
712
4 guesses
1,289
5 guesses
297
6 guesses
21
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
1 vowels
Common:
A

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
33%
All gray
34%

Example solver route

R O A T E
N A S A L
D U C H Y
B A W D Y
P A D D Y

One example route used by the solver.

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

Feedback distribution

63 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

795
408
180
155
119
105
62
55
48
40
34
32
25
22
22
21
18
17
15
14
11
11
10
9
9
8
8
7
7
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PADDY:

34% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
17% chance
Suggested:
SLART
8% chance
Suggested:
CLOTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.7% →
TOISE 6.13 bits
17.3% →
SLART 5.53 bits
7.6% →
CLOTE 4.77 bits
6.6% →
SILER 4.53 bits
5.0% →
TRINE 5.22 bits
4.5% →
STIRE 5.31 bits
2.6% →
RIONE 5.06 bits
2.3% →
DRONE 4.55 bits
2.0% →
TRINE 3.39 bits
1.7% →
SPARE 4.68 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1D2D2Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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