5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

WADDY

WADDY is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 81.2% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈwɒdi/

Noun

A cowboy.

Noun

A club or heavy stick used by Aboriginal Australians for fighting and hunting; a nulla-nulla.

Verb

To strike or beat with a waddy.

Alternative forms: waddie

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

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

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 WADDY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WADDY as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 63.2% of games, misses completely in 36.8%, and leaves about 443 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #13,918 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.89 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.

W___Y W in the 1st position and Y in the 5th position W__D_ W in the 1st position and D in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TOISE SLATE CLOTE SILER URITE TRONE
Words starting with W Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.40 Entropy (bits)
443 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.2% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 5% of evaluated openers
2.54 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WADDY 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.

3.89 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.71 Volatility
#13,918 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WADDY ranks #13,918 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
28
3 guesses
618
4 guesses
1,303
5 guesses
382
6 guesses
22
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:
A

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
63%
Green tile
31%
All gray
37%

Feedback distribution

59 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

868
436
194
181
118
58
57
55
39
37
29
28
26
21
20
12
11
11
11
9
9
9
8
8
8
7
7
6
5
5

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WADDY:

37% chance
Suggested:
TOISE
18% chance
Suggested:
SLATE
8% chance
Suggested:
CLOTE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

36.8% →
TOISE 6.12 bits
18.5% →
SLATE 5.53 bits
8.2% →
CLOTE 4.76 bits
7.7% →
SILER 4.53 bits
5.0% →
URITE 5.13 bits
2.5% →
TRONE 4.59 bits
2.4% →
SOREL 4.72 bits
2.3% →
SLART 3.42 bits
1.7% →
SOLER 4.32 bits
1.6% →
SHINE 4.63 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4A1D2D2Y4
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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