5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet F tier opener

PIGGY

PIGGY is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 78.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpɪɡi/

Noun

A pig (the animal).

“This little piggy went to market.”

Noun

A guinea pig.

Adjective

Resembling a pig.

Alternative forms: piggie

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

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 PIGGY performs as a guess

PIGGY 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 57.8% of games, misses completely in 42.2%, and leaves about 501 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,846 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 _I__Y I in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

ROATE TARSE SARED STARE RONTE TRONE
Words starting with P Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.34 Entropy (bits)
501 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
78.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 4% of evaluated openers
2.61 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PIGGY 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
0.73 Volatility
#13,846 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PIGGY ranks #13,846 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
26
3 guesses
658
4 guesses
1,245
5 guesses
391
6 guesses
31
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:
I

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
58%
Green tile
31%
All gray
42%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
P O U N D
P I C K Y
P I G G Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PIGGY in 5 guesses. See the trap-family guide for similar endgames.

Feedback distribution

54 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

995
306
220
122
104
85
70
39
35
34
33
33
33
25
22
22
18
18
17
13
13
9
6
6
6
5
5
5
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PIGGY:

42% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
13% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
9% chance
Suggested:
SARED

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

42.2% →
ROATE 6.14 bits
13.0% →
TARSE 5.36 bits
9.3% →
SARED 4.91 bits
5.2% →
STARE 5.51 bits
4.4% →
RONTE 4.73 bits
3.6% →
TRONE 5.26 bits
3.0% →
CARNE 5.02 bits
1.7% →
ALURE 4.15 bits
1.5% →
TASER 4.29 bits
1.4% →
SLIER 4.02 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3I1G2G2Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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