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Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier for first-turn info

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 463 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete opener 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.

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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

Explore lists that match the beginning, ending or letters in WEBBY.

First-turn measures

All four describe WEBBY used as an opening guess. Entropy is the same idea as “avg ruled out” on a log scale: a higher number means the guess splits the possible answers into more, smaller groups.

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

As an opening guess: previous 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
99.79% Solved within six
0.73 Spread of game lengths
#14,512 Rank among openers
Opening with WEBBY left 5 of the snapshot's answers unsolved after six guesses. A spread of 0.73 means those games clustered within about 0.73 of a guess of the 3.96 average. It 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 (3.46 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

WEBBY can come back 52 different ways. These are the most likely, and how many of the possible answers give each one:

767 answers
638 answers
245 answers
151 answers
84 answers
51 answers
51 answers
40 answers
37 answers
33 answers
30 answers
28 answers
26 answers
24 answers
20 answers
18 answers
16 answers
16 answers
14 answers
10 answers
9 answers
9 answers
7 answers
5 answers
5 answers
4 answers
4 answers
4 answers
2 answers
2 answers

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.

Try next

TRAIL ARISE SAULT STAIR ROAST RAILE

Strategy after playing WEBBY

What the solver recommends next for each way the board can respond to WEBBY.

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 4.78 bits
6.4% →
STAIR 4.71 bits
3.5% →
ROAST 4.93 bits
2.1% →
RAILE 4.43 bits
2.1% →
SLANT 4.69 bits
1.7% →
SLART 4.06 bits
1.6% →
ROAST 4.29 bits
1.4% →
ARIEL 4.15 bits

Research on WEBBY

Game-tree analysis and word research for WEBBY, with an explanation for each figure.

Optimal play

Opening with WEBBY, a proven-optimal strategy averages 3.96 guesses and ranks #14,467 of 14,855 legal openers. The best proven opener, TARSE, averages 3.55.

In hard mode it averages 4.14 guesses at best and is rank #7,279 of the 7,453 openers that can still guarantee a solve within six guesses.

Our six-turn simulation says 3.96, at or below the proven-optimal 3.96, because the two figures score different answer lists.

These figures come from exhaustive game-tree search and are exact for the NYT lists of July 2023 (3,158 answers). They do not use the site's working answer pool.

How it sounds

Two syllables, stress on the first syllable Say it WEHBEE. Estimated pronunciation

This pronunciation is machine-estimated, not taken from a pronunciation dictionary.

Related meanings

Synonyms lacy netted

Familiarity and learning

Frequency
WEBBY sits in the advanced band of the wordfreq scale, appearing less than once per million words of written English; the band marks it as an uncommon word many players still recognize.
Dominant sense
Lancaster raters associated it most strongly with sight (2.5 of 5).

Sources: Optimal-play values: Alex Selby's exhaustive Wordle analysis (MIT); Pronunciation: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (BSD), with machine estimates from the g2p_en model; Word relations: Open English WordNet, 2025 edition (CC BY 4.0); Word frequency: wordfreq (data CC BY-SA 4.0); Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms (CC BY 4.0).