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Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

PISSY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 84.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpɪsi/

Adjective

Soaked or dirtied by urine.

“David's father immediately threw his baby's pissy clothes into the wash.”

Adjective

Resembling or smelling like urine.

“I admit the car still has a pissy smell from what happened last year.”

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 PISSY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PISSY 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 64.9% of games, misses completely in 35.1%, and leaves about 374 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #10,636 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.78 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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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__S_ P in the 1st position and S in the 4th position _I__Y I in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in PISSY.

First-turn measures

All four describe PISSY used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

3.81 Entropy (bits)
374 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
84.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 15% of evaluated openers
2.14 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PISSY 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
99.96% Solved within six
0.70 Spread of game lengths
#10,636 Rank among openers
Opening with PISSY left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.70 means those games clustered within about 0.70 of a guess of the 3.78 average. It ranks #10,636 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
40
3 guesses
768
4 guesses
1,245
5 guesses
281
6 guesses
19
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
65%
Green tile
34%
All gray
35%

Feedback distribution

PISSY can come back 73 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

834 answers
272 answers
197 answers
196 answers
114 answers
81 answers
65 answers
59 answers
58 answers
58 answers
30 answers
29 answers
29 answers
26 answers
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21 answers
20 answers
20 answers
17 answers
17 answers
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16 answers
15 answers
13 answers
12 answers
10 answers
8 answers
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6 answers
6 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3I1S1S1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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

Try next

ROATE CRANE REACT DROLE RONTE CRATE

Strategy after playing PISSY

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to PISSY.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PISSY:

35% chance
Suggested:
ROATE
11% chance
Suggested:
CRANE
8% chance
Suggested:
REACT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

35.1% →
ROATE 6.11 bits
11.5% →
CRANE 5.51 bits
8.3% →
REACT 5.34 bits
8.3% →
DROLE 4.85 bits
4.8% →
RONTE 4.80 bits
3.4% →
ROATE 4.99 bits
2.7% →
CRATE 5.35 bits
2.5% →
LEANT 4.48 bits
2.4% →
LATER 4.51 bits
2.4% →
CARNE 5.03 bits

Research on PISSY

Game-tree analysis and word research for PISSY, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with PISSY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.82 guesses and ranks #11,592 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with PISSY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.78, at or below the proven-optimal 3.82, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it PIHSEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PISSY sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0).