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POPPY

Yes, POPPY was the Wordle answer on July 3, 2025 (Wordle #1475).

As an opener, it rules out about 72.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpɒpi//ˈpɑpi/

Noun

Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially a common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant.

Noun

A bright red colour tinted with orange, like that of the common poppy flower.

Adjective

Of a bright red colour tinted with orange, like that of the common poppy flower (Papaver rhoeas).

Adjective

Having a popping or bursting sound.

Alternative forms: poppie

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

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: July 3, 2025 (#1475).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How POPPY performs as a guess

POPPY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 51.8% of games, misses completely in 48.2%, and leaves about 639 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,708 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.01 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__P_ P in the 1st position and P in the 4th position _O__Y O in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TIARE SANER SLART CRUET STARE CRANE
Words starting with P Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

2.82 Entropy (bits)
639 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
72.9% Avg ruled out
In the bottom 1% for first-turn entropy
3.13 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How POPPY 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.

4.01 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#14,708 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, POPPY ranks #14,708 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
25
3 guesses
512
4 guesses
1,256
5 guesses
519
6 guesses
38
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

3/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
O

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
52%
Green tile
32%
All gray
48%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S C O L D
B O U G H
M O M M Y
P O P P Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches POPPY in 5 guesses. See the trap-family guide for similar endgames.

Feedback distribution

44 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1137
319
231
195
80
72
60
34
27
26
24
20
19
19
13
8
7
7
6
5
5
5
4
4
3
3
2
2
2
2

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POPPY:

48% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
14% chance
Suggested:
SANER
10% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

48.2% →
TIARE 6.19 bits
13.5% →
SANER 5.18 bits
9.8% →
SLART 4.75 bits
8.3% →
CRUET 4.84 bits
3.4% →
STARE 5.13 bits
3.1% →
CRANE 5.18 bits
2.5% →
DROLE 3.71 bits
1.4% →
CARLE 4.71 bits
1.1% →
RAILE 4.61 bits
1.1% →
TROOP 3.61 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1P3P3Y4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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