5 FiveLetterWords
Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess F tier opener

SUNNY

Yes, SUNNY was the Wordle answer on January 26, 2025 (Wordle #1317).

As an opener, it rules out about 85.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈsʌni//ˈsʊni//ˈsʌne/

Adjective

Featuring a lot of sunshine.

“Whilst it may be sunny today, the weather forecast is predicting rain.”

Adjective

Receiving a lot of sunshine.

“the sunny side of a hill”

Noun

A sunfish.

Adverb

sunny side up

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: January 26, 2025 (#1317).

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

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How SUNNY performs as a guess

SUNNY 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 65.5% of games, misses completely in 34.5%, and leaves about 349 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,104 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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.

S___Y S in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position S__N_ S in the 1st position and N in the 4th position _U__Y U in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

ORATE PLATE TALER ROATE ARIEL CLOTE
Words starting with S Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.90 Entropy (bits)
349 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
85.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 18% of evaluated openers
2.05 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SUNNY 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#10,104 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SUNNY ranks #10,104 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
41
3 guesses
779
4 guesses
1,247
5 guesses
259
6 guesses
25
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
1 vowels
Common:
NSU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
66%
Green tile
44%
All gray
34%

Example solver route

R O A T E
S L I M Y
S U N N Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SUNNY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

72 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

813
205
191
144
137
125
83
83
68
36
32
32
32
30
29
29
24
24
21
18
16
13
13
13
12
11
11
9
7
6

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SUNNY:

34% chance
Suggested:
ORATE
9% chance
Suggested:
PLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
TALER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

34.5% →
ORATE 6.10 bits
8.7% →
PLATE 5.49 bits
8.1% →
TALER 4.92 bits
6.1% →
ROATE 5.46 bits
5.8% →
ARIEL 5.43 bits
5.3% →
CLOTE 5.41 bits
3.5% →
GRATE 4.95 bits
3.5% →
LATER 4.73 bits
2.9% →
CADIE 4.82 bits
1.5% →
MARLE 3.11 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

S1U1N1N1Y4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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