5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer B tier opener

PORTY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 92.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Resembling or characteristic of port wine.

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 PORTY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PORTY 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 80.8% of games, misses completely in 19.2%, and leaves about 168 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #2,222 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.62 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

SLANE LAIDE SALET SLADE TREAT CRANE
Words starting with P Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.84 Entropy (bits)
168 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 74% of evaluated openers
1.11 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PORTY 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.

3.62 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#2,222 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PORTY ranks #2,222 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
61
3 guesses
978
4 guesses
1,113
5 guesses
185
6 guesses
15
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:
ORT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
36%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

108 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

453
258
210
129
129
95
88
81
57
48
47
44
41
40
38
34
33
30
27
27
23
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12

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PORTY:

19% chance
Suggested:
SLANE
11% chance
Suggested:
LAIDE
9% chance
Suggested:
SALET

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.2% →
SLANE 6.29 bits
10.9% →
LAIDE 5.12 bits
8.9% →
SALET 5.52 bits
5.5% →
SLADE 4.68 bits
5.5% →
SLANE 5.27 bits
4.0% →
TREAT 4.69 bits
3.7% →
CRANE 4.55 bits
3.4% →
CLINE 4.59 bits
2.4% →
SPALE 5.03 bits
2.0% →
SAICE 4.79 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1R1T1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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