5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet F tier opener

PYGMY

PYGMY is on the solver's possible-answer list but has not appeared as a Wordle answer yet.

As an opener, it rules out about 70.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈpɪɡmi/

Noun

A member of various legendary races of dwarfs, or supernatural peoples of diminutive stature.

Noun

Any dwarfish person or thing; a disparaging term for a small person.

Adjective

Relating or belonging to the Pygmy people.

Adjective

Unusually short or small for its kind, especially in the names of animals and plants.

Alternative forms: pigmy

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

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 PYGMY performs as a guess

PYGMY is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 48.5% of games, misses completely in 51.5%, and leaves about 687 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,213 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.92 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__M_ P in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _Y__Y Y in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TIARE SORAL RAINE MORAE STRAE ALONE
Words starting with P Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

2.84 Entropy (bits)
687 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
70.8% Avg ruled out
In the bottom 1% for first-turn entropy
3.10 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How PYGMY 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.

3.92 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#14,213 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, PYGMY ranks #14,213 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
23
3 guesses
585
4 guesses
1,332
5 guesses
381
6 guesses
31
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

4/5 unique
0 vowels

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
48%
Green tile
26%
All gray
52%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
B U D G E
P Y G M Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches PYGMY in 4 guesses.

Feedback distribution

48 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1214
234
171
167
135
100
50
28
25
24
22
21
19
18
15
11
11
10
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8
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5
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3
3
3
2
2

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing PYGMY:

51% chance
Suggested:
TIARE
10% chance
Suggested:
SORAL
7% chance
Suggested:
RAINE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

51.5% →
TIARE 6.14 bits
9.9% →
SORAL 4.75 bits
7.3% →
RAINE 5.41 bits
7.1% →
MORAE 5.50 bits
5.7% →
STRAE 5.43 bits
4.2% →
RAINE 5.21 bits
2.1% →
ALONE 4.46 bits
1.2% →
TOISE 3.94 bits
1.1% →
ALOSE 3.81 bits
1.0% →
RAILE 4.33 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

P3Y4G2M3Y4
Total: 16 points

Words With Friends

Total: 17 points

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