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

PEEKY

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

No dictionary definition for PEEKY is recorded in our sourced data.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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Use PEEKY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 85.1% 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 PEEKY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PEEKY 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 69.5% of games, misses completely in 30.5%, and leaves about 356 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #12,665 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.83 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.

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First-turn measures

All four describe PEEKY 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.

3.76 Entropy (bits)
356 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PEEKY 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.

3.83 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#12,665 Rank among openers
Opening with PEEKY left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.83 average. It ranks #12,665 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
693
4 guesses
1,267
5 guesses
325
6 guesses
26

Composition

4/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
E

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
36%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

PEEKY can come back 68 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

726 answers
472 answers
224 answers
105 answers
96 answers
83 answers
66 answers
63 answers
47 answers
45 answers
44 answers
39 answers
34 answers
27 answers
26 answers
25 answers
24 answers
22 answers
18 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
15 answers
14 answers
9 answers
8 answers
8 answers
6 answers
6 answers
5 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3E1E1K5Y4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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

Strategy after playing PEEKY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PEEKY:

30% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
20% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
9% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

30.5% →
TRAIL 6.02 bits
19.8% →
RAILE 5.27 bits
9.4% →
SORAL 4.72 bits
4.4% →
SLART 4.75 bits
4.0% →
SLANT 4.86 bits
3.5% →
SLART 5.18 bits
2.8% →
SLART 4.90 bits
2.6% →
SILER 4.15 bits
2.0% →
SONAR 4.48 bits
1.9% →
RAISE 4.52 bits

Research on PEEKY

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

Optimal play

Opening with PEEKY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.85 guesses and ranks #12,620 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.02 guesses at best and is rank #6,484 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.83, at or below the proven-optimal 3.85, 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
PEEKY 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); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).