5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

PEGGY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 83.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Any of several small warblers, the whitethroat, etc.

Noun

The petty officers' mess steward.

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 PEGGY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PEGGY 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 70.5% of games, misses completely in 29.5%, and leaves about 382 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,810 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.89 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__G_ P in the 1st position and G in the 4th position _E__Y E in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

COAST STAIR SOLAR REATE SLART SLANT
Words starting with P Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.55 Entropy (bits)
382 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
83.8% Avg ruled out

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PEGGY 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.

3.89 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#13,810 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PEGGY ranks #13,810 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
33
3 guesses
614
4 guesses
1,321
5 guesses
355
6 guesses
29

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
E

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
33%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

57 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

697
562
215
147
81
74
71
52
44
44
40
31
29
22
21
21
20
20
19
18
14
12
11
10
9
6
5
5
5
4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PEGGY:

30% chance
Suggested:
COAST
24% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
9% chance
Suggested:
SOLAR

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.5% →
COAST 6.00 bits
23.8% →
STAIR 5.39 bits
9.1% →
SOLAR 4.74 bits
6.2% →
REATE 4.65 bits
3.4% →
SLART 5.05 bits
3.1% →
SLANT 5.02 bits
3.0% →
SAREE 4.72 bits
2.2% →
SONAR 4.51 bits
1.9% →
IRATE 4.43 bits
1.9% →
ARISE 4.34 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3E1G2G2Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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