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

TESTY

Yes, TESTY was the Wordle answer on June 11, 2026 (Wordle #1818).

As an opener, it rules out about 90.9% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈtɛsti/

Adjective

Easily annoyed, irritable.

Adjective

Marked by impatience or ill humor.

“He made testy remarks.”

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 11, 2026 (#1818).

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

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How TESTY performs as a guess

TESTY 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 81.1% of games, misses completely in 18.9%, and leaves about 215 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #11,657 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.80 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.

T___Y T in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position T__T_ T in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _E__Y E in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

CAIRN RAILE DROLE SNARL SPARE RATIO
Words starting with T Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.32 Entropy (bits)
215 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
90.9% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 40% of evaluated openers
1.63 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How TESTY 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
99.8% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#11,657 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, TESTY ranks #11,657 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
53
3 guesses
702
4 guesses
1,279
5 guesses
288
6 guesses
27
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:
EST

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
81%
Green tile
34%
All gray
19%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P I T H Y
T E S T Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches TESTY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

85 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

446
415
176
166
142
128
115
83
73
51
39
39
37
35
31
30
24
23
22
22
19
17
16
14
12
12
12
11
8
8

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing TESTY:

19% chance
Suggested:
CAIRN
18% chance
Suggested:
RAILE
7% chance
Suggested:
DROLE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

18.9% →
CAIRN 6.06 bits
17.6% →
RAILE 5.31 bits
7.5% →
DROLE 4.23 bits
7.0% →
SNARL 4.95 bits
6.0% →
SPARE 4.71 bits
5.4% →
RATIO 4.85 bits
4.9% →
RANCE 4.73 bits
3.5% →
STAIR 4.51 bits
3.1% →
ARIEL 4.62 bits
2.2% →
TRAIN 4.38 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

T1E1S1T1Y4
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 7 points

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