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

PANNY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A house.

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

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it PANEE.

Rhymes with DANNY NANNY MANNY FANNY CANNY

Use PANNY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 86.9% 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 PANNY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PANNY 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 311 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,254 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe PANNY 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.

4.00 Entropy (bits)
311 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.9% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PANNY 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.87% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#10,254 Rank among openers
Opening with PANNY left 3 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.77 average. It ranks #10,254 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
45
3 guesses
760
4 guesses
1,260
5 guesses
270
6 guesses
16

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
39%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

PANNY can come back 78 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

703 answers
384 answers
165 answers
141 answers
123 answers
100 answers
85 answers
62 answers
55 answers
55 answers
50 answers
42 answers
37 answers
35 answers
27 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
13 answers
12 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1N1N1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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

Strategy after playing PANNY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PANNY:

29% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
16% chance
Suggested:
ALERT
7% chance
Suggested:
SOLDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.5% →
TOILE 6.05 bits
16.1% →
ALERT 5.54 bits
6.9% →
SOLDE 4.63 bits
5.9% →
CLOTE 4.72 bits
5.2% →
SIREN 5.12 bits
4.2% →
STIRE 5.33 bits
3.6% →
TOISE 4.68 bits
2.6% →
HOISE 4.50 bits
2.3% →
GRISE 4.59 bits
2.3% →
CRISE 4.84 bits

Research on PANNY

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

Optimal play

Opening with PANNY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.81 guesses and ranks #11,132 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 PANNY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.77, at or below the proven-optimal 3.81, 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
PANNY 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); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).