5 FiveLetterWords
Possible answer Not used yet C tier opener

WARTY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 93.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Having warts.

“a warty leaf”

Adjective

Similar to a wart.

“a warty excrescence”

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 WARTY performs as a guess

WARTY 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 82.8% of games, misses completely in 17.2%, and leaves about 162 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,578 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 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__T_ W in the 1st position and T in the 4th position _A__Y A in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

SLICE PRIED SIENT MOILE BRACE CLINE
Words starting with W Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.75 Entropy (bits)
162 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
93.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 68% of evaluated openers
1.20 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WARTY 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.

3.66 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.70 Volatility
#4,578 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WARTY ranks #4,578 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
66
3 guesses
887
4 guesses
1,184
5 guesses
202
6 guesses
13
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

5/5 unique
1 vowels
Common:
ART

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
83%
Green tile
35%
All gray
17%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P A R T Y
W A R T Y

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches WARTY in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

106 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

405
239
222
187
136
130
91
88
88
54
40
40
39
38
36
27
26
26
25
23
22
21
18
18
18
16
13
13
12
11

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WARTY:

17% chance
Suggested:
SLICE
10% chance
Suggested:
PRIED
9% chance
Suggested:
SLICE

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

17.2% →
SLICE 6.22 bits
10.1% →
PRIED 5.17 bits
9.4% →
SLICE 5.65 bits
7.9% →
SIENT 5.47 bits
5.8% →
MOILE 4.45 bits
5.5% →
BRACE 4.68 bits
3.9% →
CLINE 4.61 bits
3.7% →
TOISE 4.54 bits
3.7% →
LEAST 4.86 bits
2.3% →
SOUCE 4.81 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4A1R1T1Y4
Total: 11 points

Words With Friends

Total: 10 points

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