5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess C tier opener

PETTY

Yes, PETTY was the Wordle answer on June 16, 2025 (Wordle #1458).

As an opener, it rules out about 88.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpɛt.i/[ˈpʰɛɾ.i]/ˈpet.i/

Adjective

Having little or no importance.

“a petty fault petty squabbles”

Adjective

Of persons or their behaviour: marked by or reflective of undesirably limited interests, sympathies, or views; begrudging, selfish, small-minded; also, preoccupied with subjects having little or no importance and not mindful of broader concerns.

“Such literature may well be anathema to those who are too docile and petty for their own good.”

Noun

An outbuilding used as a lavatory; an outhouse, a privy.

Noun

A class or school for young schoolboys.

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: June 16, 2025 (#1458).

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

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How PETTY performs as a guess

PETTY 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 77.6% of games, misses completely in 22.4%, and leaves about 266 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,498 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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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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__T_ P in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _E__Y E in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

CAROL ARISE SAINT SOLAR RAILE SLEER
Words starting with P Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.10 Entropy (bits)
266 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
88.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 28% of evaluated openers
1.85 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PETTY 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,498 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PETTY ranks #11,498 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
55
3 guesses
704
4 guesses
1,276
5 guesses
291
6 guesses
24
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ET

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
78%
Green tile
35%
All gray
22%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P I T H Y
P E T T Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PETTY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

84 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

528
470
197
195
124
117
60
59
42
40
36
34
32
32
29
25
23
22
22
21
20
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17
17
14
14
12
10
10
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PETTY:

22% chance
Suggested:
CAROL
20% chance
Suggested:
ARISE
8% chance
Suggested:
SAINT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

22.4% →
CAROL 6.04 bits
19.9% →
ARISE 5.29 bits
8.4% →
SAINT 5.35 bits
8.3% →
SOLAR 4.67 bits
5.3% →
RAILE 4.61 bits
5.0% →
SLEER 4.84 bits
2.5% →
SORAL 4.62 bits
2.5% →
SAREE 4.72 bits
1.8% →
ARISE 4.30 bits
1.7% →
SONAR 4.41 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3E1T1T1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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