5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess F tier for first-turn info

PUPPY

Yes, PUPPY was the Wordle answer on June 30, 2026 (Wordle #1837).

As an opener, it rules out about 66.4% of possible answers.

Open Solver with PUPPY Open Word Finder

Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpʌpi/[ˈpʰɐpi]

Noun

A young dog, especially before sexual maturity (12–18 months).

Noun

A young rat.

Verb

To bring forth whelps or give birth to pups.

Alternative forms: puppie

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: June 30, 2026 (#1837).

See the full page for that puzzle: June 30, 2026 (#1837).

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

Wordle Observatory · optional

Played this Wordle?

Add your result to the public totals · about 20 seconds

Add your result and a quick difficulty rating to help explain how this puzzle played.

See the public data

The Observatory retains the selected puzzle, result, rating, optional Hard Mode answer and a random one-puzzle receipt. It stores no answer word, grid, guesses, account, email, IP-derived ID or reusable player identifier.

How verification and withdrawal work

The answer word and timezone are used transiently to verify this page, then discarded. The receipt prevents duplicate submissions and lets this browser withdraw later; anyone with that token can withdraw, so keep browser-data exports private. Read the full privacy details.

How PUPPY performs as a guess

PUPPY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,374 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 44.4% of games, misses completely in 55.6%, and leaves about 797 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #14,773 of 14,855 openers, averaging 4.04 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.
See strategy patterns

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 _U__Y U in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in PUPPY.

First-turn measures

All four describe PUPPY 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.

2.57 Entropy (bits)
797 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
66.4% Avg ruled out
In the bottom 1% for first-turn entropy
3.38 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PUPPY 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.

4.04 Avg guesses
99.79% Solved within six
0.75 Spread of game lengths
#14,773 Rank among openers
Opening with PUPPY left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.75 means those games clustered within about 0.75 of a guess of the 4.04 average. It ranks #14,773 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
30
3 guesses
478
4 guesses
1,242
5 guesses
554
6 guesses
44
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

3/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
U

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
44%
Green tile
29%
All gray
56%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
D O I N G
F U Z Z Y
P U P P Y

One example route used by the solver.

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

Feedback distribution

PUPPY can come back 47 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

1320 answers
254 answers
226 answers
116 answers
85 answers
84 answers
51 answers
41 answers
29 answers
26 answers
23 answers
20 answers
13 answers
9 answers
7 answers
7 answers
6 answers
6 answers
4 answers
4 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
3 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers
2 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3U1P3P3Y4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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

Try next

TIARE TALER STONE TRICE SPARE RAINE

Strategy after playing PUPPY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PUPPY:

56% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
11% chance
Suggested:
TALER
10% chance
Suggested:
STONE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

55.6% →
TIARE 6.19 bits
10.7% →
TALER 4.82 bits
9.5% →
STONE 5.25 bits
4.9% →
TRICE 4.70 bits
3.6% →
SPARE 4.92 bits
3.5% →
RAINE 5.26 bits
2.1% →
SLART 3.17 bits
1.7% →
RAILE 4.72 bits
1.2% →
RAILE 4.58 bits
1.1% →
SOARE 4.21 bits

Research on PUPPY

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

Optimal play

Opening with PUPPY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 4.04 guesses and ranks #14,777 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.22 guesses at best and is rank #7,413 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 4.04, at or below the proven-optimal 4.04, 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 PUHPEE.

Rhymes with GUPPY CUPPY

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PUPPY is a kind of dog or youth.

Synonyms pup

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PUPPY sits in the common band of the wordfreq scale, appearing about 10 times per million words of written English; the band marks it as an everyday word almost every player will know.
Learner level
Appears in intermediate learner vocabulary (CEFR-J level B1); a word learners usually reach after the basics.
Age of acquisition
Typically learned around age 4, by Glasgow Norms speaker ratings.
Imageability
Imageability score: 96 of 100. Raters found it easy to picture.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (4.5 of 5).

In a sentence

Do you see the puppy?
© tatoeba.org contributor Eccles17 (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Do you like this puppy?
© tatoeba.org contributor Amastan (CC BY 2.0 FR)

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD); Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Learner levels: CEFR-J Wordlist ver 1.5, Tono Laboratory, TUFS; Glasgow Norms (CC BY 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).