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

PRIDY

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

No dictionary definition for PRIDY is recorded in our sourced data.

As an opener, it rules out about 90.6% of possible answers.

Meaning and pronunciation

We do not have a sourced definition for this word yet.

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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 PRIDY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts PRIDY 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 75.5% of games, misses completely in 24.5%, and leaves about 224 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #2,437 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.63 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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First-turn measures

All four describe PRIDY 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.

4.55 Entropy (bits)
224 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
90.6% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 55% of evaluated openers
1.40 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PRIDY 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.

3.63 Avg guesses
99.96% Solved within six
0.69 Spread of game lengths
#2,437 Rank among openers
Opening with PRIDY 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 3.63 average. It ranks #2,437 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
54
3 guesses
981
4 guesses
1,119
5 guesses
186
6 guesses
13
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.46 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
IR

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
76%
Green tile
39%
All gray
24%

Feedback distribution

PRIDY can come back 100 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

582 answers
296 answers
154 answers
140 answers
125 answers
111 answers
89 answers
75 answers
66 answers
47 answers
42 answers
40 answers
33 answers
32 answers
30 answers
28 answers
26 answers
25 answers
19 answers
18 answers
18 answers
17 answers
17 answers
16 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
14 answers
13 answers
13 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3R1I1D2Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Strategy after playing PRIDY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PRIDY:

25% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
12% chance
Suggested:
SALET
6% chance
Suggested:
SATIN

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

24.5%
SLATE 6.42 bits
12.5%
SALET 5.43 bits
6.5%
SATIN 5.19 bits
5.9%
SALET 4.91 bits
5.3%
SLANE 5.13 bits
4.7%
COATE 5.16 bits
3.7%
ANOLE 5.27 bits
3.2%
STALE 5.23 bits
2.8%
SIENT 4.38 bits
2.0%
CARER 4.04 bits

Research on PRIDY

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

Optimal play

Opening with PRIDY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.68 guesses and ranks #3,626 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 PRIDY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.63, at or below the proven-optimal 3.68, 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.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it PRYDEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model.