5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

POTTY

POTTY 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

Pronunciation: /ˈpɒti//ˈpɑdi/

Noun

A chamber pot.

Noun

A small, usually plastic, chamber pot used to toilet-train small children.

Verb

Synonym of go potty.

“If anybody needs to potty, do it now before we go.”

Adjective

Insane.

“The noise that the neighbour's kids were making was driving Fred potty.”

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 POTTY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts POTTY 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 327 possible answers on average.

Across the six-turn solver test, it ranks #10,357 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 CRANE LAIDE RANCE ARIEL
Words starting with P Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.96 Entropy (bits)
327 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
86.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 21% of evaluated openers
1.99 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener

How POTTY performs across the solver's possible answers. See the data page for the method.

3.77 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#10,357 Opener rank
POTTY ranks #10,357 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
48
3 guesses
769
4 guesses
1,236
5 guesses
278
6 guesses
22
Top-ranked in the six-turn solver test: SLANT (3.51 guesses on average in games solved within six). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
OT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
36%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

78 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

759
249
228
179
135
93
68
59
52
48
48
35
33
27
26
22
21
18
18
17
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
9
8
7

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing POTTY:

32% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
11% chance
Suggested:
RAISE
10% chance
Suggested:
CRANE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.2% →
RAILE 6.20 bits
10.6% →
RAISE 5.57 bits
9.7% →
CRANE 5.44 bits
7.6% →
LAIDE 4.76 bits
5.7% →
RANCE 4.74 bits
3.9% →
ARIEL 5.47 bits
2.9% →
LIANE 5.07 bits
2.5% →
AROSE 4.21 bits
2.2% →
DROLE 3.70 bits
2.0% →
SHARE 4.51 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3O1T1T1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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