5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

POOTY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 86.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

The female genitalia; the vulva or vagina.

Adjective

Pretty.

Adverb

Pretty (somewhat, fairly).

Noun

Cepaea nemoralis, one of the most common species of land snail in Europe, with a dark brown lip to its shell.

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 POOTY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts POOTY 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 67.8% of games, misses completely in 32.2%, and leaves about 328 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,242 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.77 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__T_ P in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

RAILE RAISE LAIDE CARLE MANOR CRANE
Words starting with P Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.00 Entropy (bits)
328 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 23% of evaluated openers
1.95 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How POOTY 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.

3.77 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#10,242 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, POOTY ranks #10,242 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
777
4 guesses
1,220
5 guesses
278
6 guesses
26
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
2 vowels
Common:
OT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
40%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

78 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

759
320
179
116
105
104
93
68
58
42
40
36
35
34
34
27
22
18
18
16
12
10
10
10
10
10
9
9
9
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POOTY:

32% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
14% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
8% chance
Suggested:
LAIDE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.2% →
RAILE 6.20 bits
13.6% →
RAISE 5.55 bits
7.6% →
LAIDE 4.76 bits
4.9% →
CARLE 4.81 bits
4.5% →
MANOR 5.28 bits
4.4% →
CRANE 5.10 bits
3.9% →
ARIEL 5.47 bits
2.9% →
LIANE 5.07 bits
2.5% →
URASE 4.63 bits
1.8% →
SLADE 3.33 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1O1T1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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