Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier for first-turn info

PREDY

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

Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Ready for action.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly from "make the ship ready".

Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA)

Use PREDY in a puzzle

As an opener, it rules out about 92.1% of possible answers.

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

No completed appearance

No appearance in our globally completed history. A recent puzzle may still be live elsewhere.

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

How PREDY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PREDY 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 80.9% of games, misses completely in 19.1%, and leaves about 187 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #3,837 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.65 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.

First-turn measures

All four describe PREDY used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

4.69 Entropy (bits)
187 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
92.1% Avg ruled out

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PREDY 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.

3.65 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#3,837 Rank among openers
Opening with PREDY left 1 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.69 means those games clustered within about 0.69 of a guess of the 3.65 average. It ranks #3,837 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
65
3 guesses
908
4 guesses
1,180
5 guesses
184
6 guesses
16

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ER

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
37%
All gray
19%

Feedback distribution

PREDY can come back 103 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

456 answers
335 answers
206 answers
155 answers
143 answers
92 answers
70 answers
68 answers
58 answers
53 answers
42 answers
40 answers
37 answers
35 answers
29 answers
27 answers
27 answers
24 answers
23 answers
23 answers
22 answers
22 answers
20 answers
19 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
15 answers
15 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3R1E1D2Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing PREDY

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to PREDY.

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PREDY:

19% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
14% chance
Suggested:
SLANT
9% chance
Suggested:
SETAE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

19.1% →
SLANT 6.13 bits
14.1% →
SLANT 5.58 bits
8.6% →
SETAE 4.79 bits
6.5% →
COAST 5.44 bits
6.0% →
SAULT 4.72 bits
3.9% →
SAINT 4.76 bits
2.9% →
SHALT 5.25 bits
2.9% →
ALOUD 4.81 bits
2.4% →
AINEE 4.43 bits
2.2% →
SLANT 4.67 bits

Research on PREDY

Game-tree analysis and word research for PREDY, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with PREDY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.70 guesses and ranks #4,773 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

No guaranteed hard-mode solve In hard mode, no strategy that opens with PREDY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.65, at or below the proven-optimal 3.70, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT).