PATTY
Yes, PATTY was the Wordle answer on August 9, 2022 (Wordle #416).
Meaning and pronunciation
Pronunciation: /ˈpæti/
- Noun
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A flattened portion of ground meat or a vegetarian equivalent, usually round but sometimes square in shape.
“The cook fried the hamburger patty, then put it in a bun.”
- Noun
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A pastry with various fillings and spices baked inside a flaky shell, often tinted golden yellow with an egg yolk mixture or turmeric.
- Adjective
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Alternative form of patté.
Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.
Etymology
From earlier meaning "small pie" from pattipan (“something baked in a small pan”), from French pâté (“liver paste, pâté”), from pâte (“pastry, dough, paste, batter”) + -é. Doublet of pastie /pasty (“meat pie”), pate (“cheese portion”), and pâté (“finely-ground paste”) and related to pasta and paste.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)
How it sounds
Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it PATEE.
Rhymes with FATTY MATTY BATTY NATTY CATTY
Related meanings
Synonyms cake
In a sentence
Patty is a smart student.
I had a patty melt.
Use PATTY in a puzzle
As an opener, it rules out about 88.2% of possible answers.
Wordle status
A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.
Playable guess
YesIncluded in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.
Possible answer
YesIncluded among the answers considered by the solver.
Past Wordle answer
Used oncePast Wordle answer: August 9, 2022 (#416).
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PATTY 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 72.6% of games, misses completely in 27.4%, and leaves about 282 possible answers on average.
In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #9,657 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.75 guesses in games solved within six turns.
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Useful pattern pages
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First-turn measures
All four describe PATTY 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.
As an opening guess: previous benchmark
How PATTY 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.
Composition
Feedback chances
Example solver route
One example route used by the solver.
This solver benchmark reaches PATTY in 3 guesses.
Feedback distribution
PATTY can come back 86 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:
Letter-value totals
Base letter-value totals for PATTY; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.
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Words With Friends
Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.
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Strategy after playing PATTY
What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to PATTY.
Quick reference
Largest feedback groups after playing PATTY:
Research on PATTY
Game-tree analysis and word research for PATTY, with an explanation for each figure.
Optimal play
Opening with PATTY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.78 guesses and ranks #9,966 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 PATTY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.
Our six-turn simulation says 3.75, at or below the proven-optimal 3.78, 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
- PATTY sits in the intermediate band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 4 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as a word most readers meet regularly.
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).