5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

WHITY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 87.8% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Adjective

Close to white in colour.

Noun

Alternative spelling of whitey.

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 WHITY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WHITY 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 70.7% of games, misses completely in 29.3%, and leaves about 289 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #10,040 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.76 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 _H__Y H in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

CARLE REAST LINER MARLE SLANE PEART
Words starting with W Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

4.14 Entropy (bits)
289 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
87.8% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 29% of evaluated openers
1.81 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How WHITY 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.

3.76 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#10,040 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WHITY ranks #10,040 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
51
3 guesses
788
4 guesses
1,207
5 guesses
285
6 guesses
23
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:
IT

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
71%
Green tile
36%
All gray
29%

Feedback distribution

90 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

690
274
203
193
137
91
79
63
58
40
35
32
31
29
25
24
24
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9

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WHITY:

29% chance
Suggested:
CARLE
12% chance
Suggested:
REAST
9% chance
Suggested:
LINER

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

29.3% →
CARLE 6.10 bits
11.6% →
REAST 5.59 bits
8.6% →
LINER 5.28 bits
8.2% →
MARLE 4.84 bits
5.8% →
SLANE 5.11 bits
3.9% →
CARLE 5.21 bits
3.4% →
PEART 4.41 bits
2.7% →
SENOR 4.86 bits
2.5% →
SPARE 4.91 bits
1.7% →
SLANE 3.92 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4H4I1T1Y4
Total: 14 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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