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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

PATSY

Yes, PATSY was the Wordle answer on May 3, 2025 (Wordle #1414).

As an opener, it rules out about 92.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpætsi/

Noun

A person who is taken advantage of, especially by being cheated or blamed for something.

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: May 3, 2025 (#1414).

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

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How PATSY performs as a guess

PATSY 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 79.9% of games, misses completely in 20.1%, and leaves about 171 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,272 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 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__S_ P in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

RIONE DROLE TRINE MORNE ALERT ROUET
Words starting with P Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.84 Entropy (bits)
171 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 74% of evaluated openers
1.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PATSY 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.

3.61 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#1,272 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PATSY ranks #1,272 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
979
4 guesses
1,148
5 guesses
155
6 guesses
10
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
AST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
80%
Green tile
38%
All gray
20%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C L I N T
T A B B Y
P A T S Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PATSY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

109 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

473
256
182
133
124
107
83
64
53
51
49
45
39
39
38
36
30
30
30
28
24
22
21
20
19
17
16
16
15
15

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PATSY:

20% chance
Suggested:
RIONE
11% chance
Suggested:
DROLE
8% chance
Suggested:
TRINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

20.1% →
RIONE 6.06 bits
10.9% →
DROLE 5.46 bits
7.7% →
TRINE 5.54 bits
5.6% →
DROLE 4.91 bits
5.3% →
RIONE 5.36 bits
4.5% →
MORNE 4.84 bits
3.5% →
ALERT 4.75 bits
2.7% →
ROUET 4.38 bits
2.2% →
CHARE 4.31 bits
2.2% →
ROULE 4.63 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3A1T1S1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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