5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

WEBBY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 80.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Consisting of, resembling, or having webs or a web.

Adjective

Characteristic of the World Wide Web.

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 WEBBY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WEBBY 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 67.7% of games, misses completely in 32.3%, and leaves about 460 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,512 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.96 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__B_ W in the 1st position and B in the 4th position _E__Y E in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIL ARISE SAULT STAIR ROAST RAILE
Words starting with W Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.19 Entropy (bits)
460 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
80.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 3% of evaluated openers
2.76 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WEBBY 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.

3.96 Avg guesses
99.8% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#14,512 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WEBBY ranks #14,512 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
31
3 guesses
560
4 guesses
1,274
5 guesses
450
6 guesses
34
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:
E

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
68%
Green tile
29%
All gray
32%

Feedback distribution

52 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

762
635
242
149
84
51
51
40
36
32
30
28
26
23
20
18
16
16
14
10
9
9
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5
5
4
4
4
2
2

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WEBBY:

32% chance
Suggested:
TRAIL
27% chance
Suggested:
ARISE
10% chance
Suggested:
SAULT

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

32.3% →
TRAIL 5.97 bits
26.9% →
ARISE 5.32 bits
10.3% →
SAULT 4.77 bits
6.3% →
STAIR 4.72 bits
3.6% →
ROAST 4.93 bits
2.2% →
RAILE 4.43 bits
2.2% →
SLANT 4.70 bits
1.7% →
SLART 4.06 bits
1.5% →
ROAST 4.31 bits
1.4% →
ARIEL 4.14 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4E1B3B3Y4
Total: 15 points

Words With Friends

Total: 16 points

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