5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

PONDY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 88.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Resembling a pond; pondlike

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 PONDY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PONDY 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 70.2% of games, misses completely in 29.8%, and leaves about 276 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,325 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 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__D_ P in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

SLATE RAISE CARTE SLART ARIEL CRUET
Words starting with P Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.31 Entropy (bits)
276 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
88.3% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 39% of evaluated openers
1.64 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PONDY 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.

3.64 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.67 Volatility
#3,325 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PONDY ranks #3,325 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
50
3 guesses
938
4 guesses
1,180
5 guesses
176
6 guesses
10
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
1 vowels
Common:
NO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
70%
Green tile
34%
All gray
30%

Feedback distribution

92 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

703
194
188
142
125
125
104
65
57
52
36
36
33
29
26
23
23
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11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PONDY:

30% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
8% chance
Suggested:
CARTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.8% →
SLATE 6.39 bits
8.2% →
RAISE 5.42 bits
8.0% →
CARTE 5.28 bits
6.0% →
SLART 4.94 bits
5.3% →
ARIEL 5.47 bits
5.3% →
CRUET 4.88 bits
4.4% →
STARE 5.64 bits
2.8% →
ARISE 4.58 bits
2.4% →
SAICE 4.62 bits
2.2% →
CARLE 5.02 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1N1D2Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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