5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

POGGY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 79.9% of possible answers.

Open Solver with POGGY Open Word Finder

Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Alternative form of porgy.

Noun

A small whale.

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 POGGY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts POGGY 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 59.1% of games, misses completely in 40.9%, and leaves about 473 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,577 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.87 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 _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TIARE CRATE SLART CARET SATER URITE
Words starting with P Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.40 Entropy (bits)
473 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
79.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 5% of evaluated openers
2.55 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How POGGY 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.

3.87 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#13,577 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, POGGY ranks #13,577 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
32
3 guesses
638
4 guesses
1,303
5 guesses
359
6 guesses
21
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:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
59%
Green tile
34%
All gray
41%

Feedback distribution

57 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

964
275
206
166
123
88
77
52
42
41
34
29
28
23
22
18
17
14
13
12
8
7
7
7
7
6
6
6
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POGGY:

41% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
12% chance
Suggested:
CRATE
9% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

40.9% →
TIARE 6.21 bits
11.7% →
CRATE 5.30 bits
8.7% →
SLART 4.82 bits
7.0% →
CARET 4.88 bits
5.2% →
SATER 5.44 bits
3.7% →
URITE 5.16 bits
3.3% →
LIANE 5.13 bits
2.2% →
DROLE 3.61 bits
1.8% →
TALER 4.46 bits
1.7% →
DAINE 4.16 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1G2G2Y4
Total: 12 points

Words With Friends

Total: 14 points

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