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PATSY

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

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.

Etymology

The term dates back at least to the 1870s in the United States, close to the peak of Irish migration.

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

How it sounds

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

Related meanings

Synonyms mark fool mug sucker gull

In a sentence

He was a patsy set up to take the fall.
© tatoeba.org contributor timmartin (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Was Lee Harvey Oswald really a patsy?
© tatoeba.org contributor ddnktr (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Use PATSY in a puzzle

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

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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).

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PATSY in Connections

1 recorded appearance in completed main-edition puzzles through . A category label alone does not establish a word's meaning.

How PATSY performs as a guess

PATSY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,384 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 172 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #1,272 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.61 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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 PA_SY P in the 1st position, A in the 2nd position, S in the 4th position, and Y in the 5th position

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PATSY 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.

4.85 Entropy (bits)
172 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
92.8% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous 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% Solved within six
0.67 Spread of game lengths
#1,272 Rank among openers
Opening with PATSY solved every answer in the snapshot within six guesses. A spread of 0.67 means those games clustered within about 0.67 of a guess of the 3.61 average. It 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

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

PATSY can come back 110 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

478 answers
257 answers
183 answers
134 answers
125 answers
108 answers
83 answers
65 answers
53 answers
51 answers
50 answers
46 answers
39 answers
39 answers
38 answers
36 answers
30 answers
30 answers
30 answers
28 answers
25 answers
23 answers
21 answers
20 answers
19 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers

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.

Try next

RIONE DROLE TRINE MORNE ALERT ROUET

Strategy after playing PATSY

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

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
10.8% →
DROLE 5.46 bits
7.7% →
TRINE 5.55 bits
5.6% →
DROLE 4.91 bits
5.2% →
RIONE 5.35 bits
4.5% →
MORNE 4.84 bits
3.5% →
ALERT 4.75 bits
2.7% →
ROUET 4.39 bits
2.2% →
CHARE 4.31 bits
2.1% →
ROULE 4.63 bits

Research on PATSY

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

Optimal play

Opening with PATSY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.66 guesses and ranks #2,443 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 PATSY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.61, at or below the proven-optimal 3.66, 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
PATSY sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about once per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (1.7 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).