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

PEEPY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 81.6% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpiː.pɪ//ˈpi.pi/

Adjective

Inclined to peep (to watch someone or something).

Adjective

Having a high-pitched voice, like the sound of a peep.

“She is so peepy sometimes I think only dogs can hear her.”

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 PEEPY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PEEPY 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 65.3% of games, misses completely in 34.7%, and leaves about 436 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,156 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.91 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 PEEPY 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.

3.41 Entropy (bits)
436 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 5% of evaluated openers
2.54 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PEEPY 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.

3.91 Avg guesses
99.75% Solved within six
0.75 Spread of game lengths
#14,156 Rank among openers
Opening with PEEPY left 6 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.75 means those games clustered within about 0.75 of a guess of the 3.91 average. It ranks #14,156 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
35
3 guesses
620
4 guesses
1,243
5 guesses
413
6 guesses
37
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

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
E

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
36%
All gray
35%

Feedback distribution

PEEPY can come back 59 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

824 answers
504 answers
247 answers
108 answers
82 answers
79 answers
63 answers
49 answers
49 answers
37 answers
35 answers
31 answers
28 answers
27 answers
21 answers
18 answers
14 answers
14 answers
11 answers
10 answers
10 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3E1E1P3Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 13 points

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

Strategy after playing PEEPY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PEEPY:

35% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
21% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
10% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.7%
TRAIL 5.98 bits
21.2%
RAILE 5.25 bits
10.4%
SOLAR 4.68 bits
4.5%
SLART 4.72 bits
3.5%
SLART 4.95 bits
3.3%
SLART 5.11 bits
2.7%
SILER 4.15 bits
2.1%
CRUET 4.18 bits
2.1%
SONAR 4.59 bits
1.6%
ARISE 4.15 bits

Research on PEEPY

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

Optimal play

Opening with PEEPY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.93 guesses and ranks #14,251 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 PEEPY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.91, at or below the proven-optimal 3.93, 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 PEEPEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.