5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

PIKEY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 90.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪ.ki/

Noun

A pike (type of fish).

Adjective

Associated with or filled with pike (fish).

Noun

An itinerant person, especially one of Romani or Irish Traveller heritage.

Adjective

Associated with pikeys.

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 PIKEY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PIKEY 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 80.9% of games, misses completely in 19.1%, and leaves about 214 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #8,718 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.73 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__E_ P in the 1st position and E in the 4th position _I__Y I in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

ROAST SLART SLANT SOLAR SAINT STRAP
Words starting with P Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.35 Entropy (bits)
214 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 42% of evaluated openers
1.60 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PIKEY 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.

3.73 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#8,718 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PIKEY ranks #8,718 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
49
3 guesses
812
4 guesses
1,223
5 guesses
249
6 guesses
18
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
2 vowels
Common:
EI

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
38%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

80 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

451
399
198
187
169
103
75
68
57
48
43
35
33
32
31
29
28
24
22
21
21
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19
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12
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9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PIKEY:

19% chance
Suggested:
ROAST
17% chance
Suggested:
SLART
8% chance
Suggested:
SLANT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.1% →
ROAST 6.06 bits
16.9% →
SLART 5.75 bits
8.4% →
SLANT 5.46 bits
7.9% →
SOLAR 4.70 bits
7.2% →
SOLAR 4.78 bits
4.4% →
SAINT 4.40 bits
3.2% →
ROAST 4.39 bits
2.9% →
SLANT 4.78 bits
2.4% →
STRAP 4.81 bits
2.0% →
LEARE 4.20 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3I1K5E1Y4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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