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PESKY

Yes, PESKY was the Wordle answer on March 11, 2024 (Wordle #996).

As an opener, it rules out about 89.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpɛski/

Adjective

Annoying, troublesome, irritating (usually of an animal or child).

“Stay out of my yard, you pesky kids!”

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: March 11, 2024 (#996).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How PESKY performs as a guess

PESKY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 77.9% of games, misses completely in 22.1%, and leaves about 251 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,867 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 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__K_ P in the 1st position and K in the 4th position _E__Y E in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL RAILE ROAST DAILY SLART CLARY
Words starting with P Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.19 Entropy (bits)
251 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
89.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 32% of evaluated openers
1.76 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PESKY 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.

3.78 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#10,867 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PESKY ranks #10,867 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
734
4 guesses
1,260
5 guesses
289
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ES

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
31%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S I L E N
C H E S S
P E S K Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PESKY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

80 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

521
448
184
168
137
136
58
43
40
38
37
37
36
33
32
32
30
29
22
21
20
20
19
17
15
15
13
12
11
9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PESKY:

22% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
19% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
8% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.1% →
TRAIL 6.05 bits
19.0% →
RAILE 5.30 bits
7.8% →
ROAST 5.31 bits
7.1% →
DAILY 4.25 bits
5.8% →
RAILE 4.50 bits
5.8% →
SLART 4.79 bits
2.5% →
CLARY 4.58 bits
1.8% →
TRAMP 4.44 bits
1.7% →
PIANO 4.50 bits
1.6% →
RANEE 4.37 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3E1S1K5Y4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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