5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

POLLY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 85.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A prefect at Uppingham School in Rutland, England.

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 POLLY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts POLLY 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 66.5% of games, misses completely in 33.5%, and leaves about 344 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,277 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.79 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__L_ P in the 1st position and L in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TIARE SANER RAISE DANSE CRUET STARE
Words starting with P Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.93 Entropy (bits)
344 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
85.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 20% of evaluated openers
2.02 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How POLLY 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.

3.79 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#11,277 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, POLLY ranks #11,277 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
47
3 guesses
757
4 guesses
1,219
5 guesses
301
6 guesses
29
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:
LO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
36%
All gray
34%

Feedback distribution

79 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

790
240
226
169
148
97
58
52
47
43
38
31
29
29
24
23
21
20
19
19
17
17
16
11
11
10
9
9
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POLLY:

34% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
10% chance
Suggested:
SANER
10% chance
Suggested:
RAISE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

33.5% →
TIARE 6.30 bits
10.2% →
SANER 5.30 bits
9.6% →
RAISE 5.34 bits
7.2% →
DANSE 4.80 bits
6.3% →
CRUET 4.92 bits
4.1% →
STARE 5.56 bits
2.5% →
GLACE 3.92 bits
2.2% →
SAUTE 4.74 bits
2.0% →
CARNE 4.93 bits
1.8% →
DRONE 3.51 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1L1L1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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