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PUTTY

Yes, PUTTY was the Wordle answer on July 24, 2026 (Wordle #1861).

As an opener, it rules out about 82.4% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpʌti/

Noun

A form of cement, made from linseed oil and whiting, used to fixate panes of glass.

Noun

Any of a range of similar substances.

Adjective

Of, pertaining to, or resembling putty.

Verb

To fix or fill using putty.

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: July 24, 2026 (#1861).

See the full page for that puzzle: July 24, 2026 (#1861).

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

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How PUTTY performs as a guess

PUTTY 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 61.9% of games, misses completely in 38.1%, and leaves about 417 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener benchmark, it ranks #11,629 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 guesses in games solved within six turns.

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

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

First-turn measures

All four describe PUTTY 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.

3.71 Entropy (bits)
417 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
82.4% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 12% of evaluated openers
2.24 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opening guess: previous benchmark

How PUTTY 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.

3.80 Avg guesses
99.92% Solved within six
0.72 Spread of game lengths
#11,629 Rank among openers
Opening with PUTTY left 2 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.72 means those games clustered within about 0.72 of a guess of the 3.80 average. It ranks #11,629 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
39
3 guesses
738
4 guesses
1,249
5 guesses
302
6 guesses
23
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

4/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
TU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
62%
Green tile
32%
All gray
38%

Example solver route

R O A T E
W I N D Y
A M P L E
P U T T Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PUTTY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

PUTTY can come back 72 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

904 answers
268 answers
201 answers
146 answers
106 answers
80 answers
69 answers
59 answers
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34 answers
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22 answers
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10 answers
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9 answers
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7 answers
7 answers

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3U1T1T1Y4
Total: 10 points

Words With Friends

Total: 11 points

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

Try next

ARIEL ARISE DROLE SNORE RAISE GLACE

Strategy after playing PUTTY

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

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PUTTY:

38% chance
Suggested:
ARIEL
11% chance
Suggested:
ARISE
8% chance
Suggested:
DROLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

38.1% →
ARIEL 6.10 bits
11.3% →
ARISE 5.80 bits
8.5% →
DROLE 4.95 bits
6.1% →
SNORE 5.21 bits
4.5% →
RAISE 5.50 bits
3.4% →
GLACE 4.58 bits
2.9% →
SAINE 4.94 bits
2.5% →
CANER 4.66 bits
2.4% →
SNORE 4.36 bits
2.3% →
SOARE 4.67 bits

Research on PUTTY

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

Optimal play

Opening with PUTTY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.83 guesses and ranks #12,049 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 PUTTY can guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.80, at or below the proven-optimal 3.83, 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 PUHTEE.

Rhymes with NUTTY CUTTY

Related meanings

In WordNet's sense inventory, PUTTY is a kind of cement or apply.

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
PUTTY sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.

In a sentence

He filled the crack with putty.
© tatoeba.org contributor Luornu (CC BY 2.0 FR)
Tom got some Silly Putty for his birthday.
© tatoeba.org contributor ddnktr (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).