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

PARDY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Interjection

Obsolete form of pardie.

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 PARDY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PARDY 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 79.8% of games, misses completely in 20.2%, and leaves about 187 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,285 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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 PARDY 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.

4.69 Entropy (bits)
187 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 64% of evaluated openers
1.26 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PARDY 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.68 Spread of game lengths
#2,285 Rank among openers
Opening with PARDY left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.68 means those games clustered within about 0.68 of a guess of the 3.62 average. It ranks #2,285 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
67
3 guesses
940
4 guesses
1,166
5 guesses
169
6 guesses
11
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
35%
All gray
20%

Feedback distribution

PARDY can come back 105 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

480 answers
256 answers
253 answers
139 answers
125 answers
115 answers
97 answers
69 answers
69 answers
56 answers
38 answers
38 answers
34 answers
32 answers
32 answers
31 answers
26 answers
24 answers
22 answers
21 answers
21 answers
21 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers
14 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1R1D2Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing PARDY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PARDY:

20% chance
Suggested:
TOILE
11% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
11% chance
Suggested:
TOISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.2%
TOILE 6.17 bits
10.8%
SLATE 5.70 bits
10.7%
TOISE 5.46 bits
5.9%
TRACE 4.90 bits
5.3%
CLOTE 4.74 bits
4.8%
STOLE 4.58 bits
4.1%
TUILE 5.08 bits
2.9%
TOISE 4.99 bits
2.9%
STOLE 5.09 bits
2.4%
DRIER 4.48 bits

Research on PARDY

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

Optimal play

Opening with PARDY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,219 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 PARDY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.62, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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 PAHRDEE.

Rhymes with HARDY TARDY CARDY PARDI

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PARDY 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).