5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

WIDDY

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

As an opener, it rules out about 76.3% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

Pronunciation spelling of widow.

Noun

A rope or halter made of flexible twigs or withes or such

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 WIDDY performs as a guess

Wordle accepts WIDDY 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 55.0% of games, misses completely in 45.0%, and leaves about 558 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,346 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.93 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 _I__Y I in the 2nd position and Y in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE STANE SORAL RONTE BRANE SERAL
Words starting with W Words ending with Y

First-turn measures

3.19 Entropy (bits)
558 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
76.3% 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 WIDDY 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.

3.93 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.74 Volatility
#14,346 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, WIDDY ranks #14,346 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
31
3 guesses
607
4 guesses
1,233
5 guesses
447
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:
I

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
55%
Green tile
28%
All gray
45%

Feedback distribution

59 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

1060
316
220
122
116
71
52
39
39
32
30
23
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing WIDDY:

45% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
13% chance
Suggested:
STANE
9% chance
Suggested:
SORAL

Follow-ups for common patterns

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

45.0% →
TARSE 6.35 bits
13.4% →
STANE 5.36 bits
9.3% →
SORAL 4.82 bits
5.2% →
RONTE 4.87 bits
4.9% →
BRANE 5.38 bits
3.0% →
SERAL 5.09 bits
2.2% →
TALER 4.54 bits
1.7% →
LAYER 4.70 bits
1.7% →
CARLE 4.65 bits
1.4% →
SLANT 3.09 bits

Letter-value totals

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

Scrabble

W4I1D2D2Y4
Total: 13 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

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